Quotes About Adversity

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.

Self-belief, I think, is my biggest strength. The mental toughness comes into play whenever the chips are down.

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

When we're on the football field, it's me vs. him. Maybe it's me vs. two of them. Maybe it's me vs. three of them. It's a fight. And you have to take that fighter's mentality out there.

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.

I learned so much and my mentality got so much stronger living away from my family.

Some people are physically or mentally challenged. I'm emotionally challenged!

I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old Firm player living in Glasgow.

I played football at uni right up until I broke my leg. This girl slide-tackled me, studs up and broke it on impact. I was in my fourth year and mentally it made such a difference having that taken away from me when I needed it.

My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.

When I get on a course that's not very good, that's not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.

Mentally, I'm really strong, but for maybe the first time in my life, I cried about my career because I thought it was over. When you've been out for a year, and you think it's over, you think completely differently after that. I was just looking on TV, and I wasn't able to train, and in the meantime, I had a son.

I've always been good at handling stuff mentally.

It's mentally hard. There are times when you're set back again, and you don't know what to do.

Mentally, you have to be strong, particularly in away games at the places where the fans are very passionate.

You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.

I've always prided myself on being mentally tough, but just because you're mentally tough doesn't mean that what's going on between your ears is always good things.

Mentally, it's good for me to fight in Japan.

I just want to continue to build mentally to push forward even on the good days and bad days.