Quotes About Adversity

Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

Every time someone starts talking about weight, it takes away from the fight. No one is born at that weight. We grew into that weight. It is all about the challenge, more so than the weight.

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

This time it will be a long one.

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.