Quotes About Adversity

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.

This is the pinnacle of the basketball world, you know, in the NBA you're playing against the best guys in the world, and best defensive players in the world, so you have to be able to outthink them and make the right decisions.

Pressure busts pipes, and pressure can get to some people, and I don't let it get to me. And that's how I don't let it get to me is because, honestly, I just don't believe in it.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

I don't fear hostile atmospheres. In fact, that added pressure serves as an incentive for me to give my very best performance on the pitch.

The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

I don't remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.

I felt when I was hitting guys or going for a takedown at 185, sometimes it was like hitting a wall.

Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.

I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.

Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.

You will find that every successful entrepreneur has suffered many setbacks. These entrepreneurs just forget to mention these when they are doing interviews with the 'Wall Street Journal' or Bloomberg TV.