Quotes About Adversity

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.

If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

It hurts because you want to try to get out there and help the team win, and I wasn't able to do that. Injuries are part of the game, but I'm over that now, hopefully.

The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

Life, unfortunately, doesn?t seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.