Quotes About Adversity

A crisis + time = humor.

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I've never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the time by other people. I was 'Desmond' or 'Damon' or 'Demon.' So Bob's cool.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

I was a disabled child. So, people made fun of me, don't pretend like this never happens. But at the same time, I never cried about it. I never got sad about it.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

this time has finished me.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

I'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my problem. I'm just going to keep on trying like I normally do.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.