Quotes About Adversity

I wasn't afraid of failing. A lot of people fear failure, and I think that holds a lot of people back. But a lot of times, it's possibly the best thing that could happen to you because you learn how to get back up, you learn how to do it better and you're stronger from that.

I think this applies to a lot of things in life. When things aren't going well, you start to worry about things you can't control, and it also holds true with baseball.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

This is a fight. This isn't putting a ball in a hole. This has always been a fight for me, and I just love it when it's that way.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

Obviously, the good thing about golf, it's difficult to really, really blow it after five holes unless it goes really, really, really... really, really, really wrong. But you still have 13 to go, and if you have a good run, where you make five or six birdies, you can get it back somehow.

I've had toiletries explode in my bag and go all over my clothes a few times but I wouldn't let something like that ruin a holiday for me.

I went to Holland and had a good season where I learned a lot about a different type of football. And then going to the Championship. We all know what that's like, how tough it is. And that added a different part to my game.

Before I was making music, I was homeless. I didn't have all the girls or any friends - and now I have everything that I wanted.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

My dad was a street kid for seven years - he was homeless.

I was homeless a few times in my life and it was really hard growing up, but now I'm super grateful about everything.

I'm going to be homeless, I'm a gypsy.

I was homeless.

Shortly after my first daughter was born in 2007, we had to move into a homeless shelter.