Quotes About Adversity

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

You don't know where your career is going to take you. It might all go wrong and I might never play in a Masters again. So it's important to keep things real.

I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.

Of course I played some bad matches.

I've had matches that were close.

The tough matches never go my way, so I want to change that.

When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.

It's always difficult to win matches.

Even I lost a series of Test matches as skipper.

You're going to lose some matches, you're going to have some bad weeks, for sure. It's part of sport.

It is always difficult to leave your mates and your club in the middle of the season for another competition.

I did my best, but football is not like maths: often, a lot of things out of our control affect the way we feel and the way things turn out.

How you lose matters. Don't be afraid of losing - it paralyzes you.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

It's what you do after making a mistake - that's what I like to see. As long as you mature and grow with it, that's fine.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

If you are lucky, you go to a team like Porto to mature. And if things don't go well for you, others take your place.

A lot worse things can happen than losing your world title. But I was able to come to terms with it, accept it, be mature about it.

During that year with Madrid, I learned many things; I matured a lot. It was a difficult year because many non-sporting things were happening.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

When you're mayor, not every project is going to go well.

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.