Quotes About Adversity

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that's my business. Every race I lose I learn from and get tougher.

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

When times get tough, we get tougher. Failure and government assistance are not an option for us.

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.

That is probably the best thing to do: look back on the harder games you've had, the tougher games, learn what I didn't do well and what I could have done better.

International football's not always about playing the top three in the world - it's about going to some of the tougher places around Europe and playing real tough games.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

I may have some things tougher than the average person, but there are a lot of people who are going through worse things than me. I can't live in fear.

You can't just go in and say, 'I'm going to be tougher that you,' you know? Heavy bags are tough, but I've never been beat by one.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

Make no mistake, the days and hours before going into the ring can be stressful for any boxer. The bigger and tougher the fight the greater stress, But if a boxer knows he's stepping out of his league it's even worse.

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

My first time alone in Spain playing basketball - that kind of made me tougher, especially for my character and my personality. It's not easy when you're alone. Some nights you have bad games or bad days and it's not easy. I think that is the one thing that changed me, to make me a better person, a tougher guy.

Every year you go out and there are teams you have success against and there are teams that are a little tougher.