Quotes About Adversity

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Abject terror at one's dire surroundings is oft mitigated by strong drink, I find.

Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?

I wish this didn't affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't.

Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't.

Cartwright was a firm believer in the proposition that the best fight was one that was as unfair as possible.

The problem isn't that I've hit rock bottom. The problem is that I haven't.

Maybe you know how it is when you have decided to do something really enormous with your life, something that stretches your resources to the limit. You can get the feeling that you are engaged in a trial of strength with the universe.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

We are complex combinations of strengths and weaknesses. There are things that we can do with ease. There are other things that are painful and arduous.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Teddy Roosevelt

In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.

Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc.

I tore both of my ACLs. I broke my right patella. I tore my left pec, all within about a 2 1/2-year span.

In May of 2017 they told me that no one has ever had 3 major surgeries in a 12 week span and returned at a competitive level. I returned to the most successful run of my career.

Both of my parents sacrificed a lot. My dad, Tero, would drive me to training every single day. My mum, Teija, came to Seville to help me. She did everything for me. It was such a big place to go at 17. Even if you can speak English, it doesn't matter there. It was all Spanish. They don't do English.

In England, the referees don't call many fouls, as opposed to Spanish football. Consequently, you must be really strong all through the 90 minutes.

Spanish League is very tough, especially away matches.

There were lots of Spanish teams who didn't want to sign me because of my height when I was 15, 16 years old.

You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain't have much money, but we was like all friends and cool and playing and going to school together.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

I know what I'm capable of. I know when the game is on the line and we need a spark play, I'm going to make that play. But we've got to be smart about it. Can't be forcing a lot of things if I'm getting double-covered a lot.

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.