Quotes About Adversity

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

It knocks the rust off, going against a guy like Kevin Love.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.

Just when you feel like you get on top, something happens that knocks you down.

The first hit in a game is the thing that knocks everything out; whether you're nervous, you're over-thinking stuff, it definitely helps.

No matter how often I was knocked to the ground, I always got up. Nothing knocks me down.

It's really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.

My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended because of that.

LA is a harsh city to be in when you're a little girl from the South, and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and you are thinking, 'Am I making, have I made a massive mistake? I don't have money to move back home. My parents are not on board with this. What do I do?'

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith,

Life is a series of lessons. Crises can be seen as the homework. They aren't there to defeat us but to help us grow—to graduate us into the next stage of life.

Variety in experiences is necessary for our continued growth. We mistakenly think that the "untroubled" life would be forever welcome. It's the deep waves of life that teach us to be better swimmers.