Quotes About Adversity

When you go into a different stadium, you know there's no home crowd, there's no energy coming from the crowd for your side.

In the stadium, when it is very noisy, you only have a limited influence as a coach. You need players on the field who understand the plan and who will talk to the guys when things are not going well.

No one likes it when the fans go against you, especially in your own stadium.

I have gone through some bad times with my own business. At one point, I was working my socks off, driving, delivering, baking. It was hard, hard work. But I worked through it. Running your own bakery is hard. I never came close to bankruptcy, but I had to cut back on staff.

I have been in a unique position to hear from players and staff members about the issues they and their families have had to encounter.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

A goalkeeper's biggest attribute is to bounce back. If you have support from fans, backroom staff and team-mates to play the next game, it is easy.

I didn't enjoy Rio. My team-mates were great but some of the staff made it a really negative place.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.

You know, we've had some pretty rough festival stages.

We have good stages in our career and stages where you could do better.

I'm not one to bow under immense pressure. I know how to deal with it. As a youth player growing up and playing for England, you deal with it then and get used to it. You just carry on into the bigger stages, and it has become natural to me.

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

I've been through a lot with injuries and I kind of know the process, I know what it takes to get back and I've been through the rehab stages before.

I was always smaller than the rest coming up at Coventry, and I developed physically more in the later stages.

There aren't any negative thoughts about my time in Detroit; I just didn't play. Sometimes you have to go through that at different stages. I went through it during a tough period, my first year in the league, but it was a good year for me off the court.

There are moments of high mood, there are moments of low mood, there are moments of injury, there are moments of strength, there are moments of progress, there are moments of stagnation. All we can do is keep on pushing.

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.

So many times I've gone flying. I've fallen in audience members' laps, I've fallen down the stairs, I've had a shoe fall off live.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.