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" There’s so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge. " - Aisha Hinds

" Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero. " - Jonathan Maberry

" I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. " - Amy Tan

" Cancer is cancer. I’ve got a great life if I can just stay alive. " - Paul Henderson

" Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other. " - Sylvester Stallone

" I’ve been accident-prone since I was a kid climbing trees and falling out. I’ve come off a few motorcycles. " - Vic Reeves

" I think getting back on the court as quickly as possibly is the best thing to do, sometimes you can get down and stuck in a negative attitude – at least for me. " - Jessica Pegula

" Have you read ‘The Grapes of Wrath?’ That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was. " - B. Wayne Hughes

" But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin’ on trying to destroy us. " - Waylon Jennings

" I felt like I’ve accomplished a lot in the boxing world that a lot of people don’t give me credit for. But it’s life. I don’t trip over it. " - Terence Crawford