Quotes About Adversity

Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.

We Indians react under pressure.

Not every single minute of your career will go well, individually and collectively, and not every season will go how you want it to, but it's how you react to that.

It's not about you playing when everything is going good, it's how you react when things are going bad and not going your way.

I've had times when layups didn't go in, you start second-guessing yourself. It's how you come at it and how you react to it.

When faced with exceptional circumstances, people react differently.

Back in the day you used to have a fight. You win, you lose, you get up and go home, dust yourself down. Social media made it so that if you lose a fight it is on camera, you are embarrassed and you are forced to react.

Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.

People who troll you want a reaction, and there's no point in doing that. I just try to focus on my football.

It is always difficult when there is a lack of confidence and a lack of belief but it can be good for me to see the reaction of the team in a difficult time.

If a person, an athlete is not versed in something, their first reaction when there is a bad situation is not a good feeling. It's panic.

Trolls want reactions. Don't become a bully because they're bullying you!

When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

I feel life is not about what happens to you, but about your reactions to what has happened to you.

Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.

We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn't look pretty, especially in today's politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.

Reading the script, I started feeling very deeply bad for Freddie. Between his friends, his partners, and his woman, he was catching a hard time. 'Freddie's Dead' came to me immediately.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I'm emotionally and physically ready for anything.

You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn't matter. I'm a fighter, and I'm ready to fight every time.