Quotes About Adversity

It is said that 10 percent of life is what happens to us and 90 percent is how we choose to react to it.

Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up.

The paradox is that sometimes you have to get worse before you get better.

Pervasiveness. Unlike pessimists who let their doubts and troubles affect every area of their lives, optimists are able to put their problems in a "box" and not let them distract them.

Sports teach us how to persevere. How to deal with adversity. How to become part of a single heartbeat that defines a team. Sports teach lessons in leadership, respect, and courage.

Courage. A mentally tough athlete must be willing to take a risk. That's what peak performers do. In the book Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.

Mentally tough athletes know how to stay focused and deal with adversity.

Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.

Mentally tough athletes possess an inner strength. They often play their best when they're feeling their worst. They don't make excuses.

Life is not measured by failures and victories. It's measured by attempts and journeys.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.

He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now...He was alone and there was nothing for him.

the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

She was a girl who knew how to be gay, even when she was sad. And that's important — you know?" Parton

True strength lay not in conquering one's enemies but in conquering the foe that lay within.

You can stand there defeated, or deal with those elements within your control and move on. Which makes more sense?

For a month Cook sailed along offshore looking for a safe anchorage, with the northern and then the eastern shore on his starboard bow, but he was frustrated at every new turn of the land by winds or currents or pounding surf in the shallows.

I have had a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Nietzsche quote I have often considered: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. For when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.")

There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.