Quotes About Adversity

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.

I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.

I would say the greatest challenge, for me, had been my rookie year and learning my spot. It is an emotional battle, as you have good days and bad days. Being young and thrown into this big business is challenging.

Any football club, any person, any human being alive goes through adversity. The art of living life is to recover from that and respond to any challenges being thrown at you.

I've never gone against any manager, nor have I talked badly about any coach, I've always thrown myself at any challenge handed to me and tried to understand and learn.

I was so young when I started that I didn't really understand all of it. We'd show up and have the slurs being thrown out there, but my parents always dealt with that. They just told me to go out there, do my best, and try to win. Go out there and race well and they'll shut right up.

I've had a lot of things thrown at me. A lot of coins that had been sharpened, billiard balls, and I had a dart thrown at my back at Burnley. And potatoes with razor blades.

I'll cop whatever gets thrown at me - that's politics.

Sometimes you can get distracted by figures that are thrown out there and you're doing things you wouldn't normally try to do.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

In the beginning, we'd walk off stage and burst into tears, 'cause we were getting bottles thrown at us, and boys were spitting all over us.

I've been kind of thrown under the bus a few times in my career.

Anytime my life has ever thrown me a curveball, I can go back to that and draw a lot of confidence for myself knowing I can persevere.

My life has thrown up many challenges, good and bad, and nine times out of 10 I come through them.

I'm at my best when I'm thrown, even though I don't like to be thrown.

Often in life, you get thrown curveballs and how you handle them and how you bounce back from them will define who you are.

I've never said 'no' to a fight and I've always been ready for anything they've thrown my way.

If I feel like I am being thrown under the bus, how am I supposed to get up and come for a party to enjoy the team's or team-mate's success?

I don't expect people to understand, but as players who love the sport and have constantly been thrown a rock at by our association and now the Govt, there is only so much one can take.

Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!

Life throws curveballs.

I have many phobias. But there are times when life throws challenges at you and you dont have an option, you cant give up and just perform.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.