Quotes About Adversity

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

Obviously, when I had the scare with the blood clots, I mean, that's the kind of thing that you don't want to have happen, obviously, and you worry about what it means for the rest of your career.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Sometimes people will sue me to make an example of me but I don't sit home worrying about it; I'm too busy working.

I think I've been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.

We've talked through the fact that our family will be attacked. Our family will be dragged through the mud. My businesses that I've helped build and create will be attacked and dragged through the mud. That's politics. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it or thinking about it.

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

I'm not really good at worrying. I think I get that from my pops. He can be in some really dire straights and be a real optimist, so I don't sweat the petty stuff.

Early on, when I was playing the one-day stuff a few years ago and had a really poor start to my career, it was actually when I stopped worrying about getting dropped and about all the things that might go wrong that I started playing better.

Some people aren't going to like you and some people like you. You can't go through life worrying about stuff like that both on and off the court.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger. You're staying where you're at. Either you're getting better, or you're getting worse. You're not staying the same.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.