Quotes About Adversity

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

A thing hard to track is Fortune.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.

I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal.

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

We all have a story, and I wouldn't trade my story for anything.

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.

Obviously, getting traded halfway through the year is always tough. New faces, new teammates, guys you played against but don't know on a personal level.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

I really started from the bottom. When I got drafted, I was not playing. I had to work my way up. Then I got traded, came off the bench, then became a starter.

When you have a coaching change, when you have trades, an injury, when you have all these things happening - these are all things that are out of your control. Quickly, you start to understand that, really, the only thing you can control is going out and playing hard every night and being ready for your opportunity.

Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

We go through the good, the bad and the ugly all together.

They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.