Quotes About Adversity

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

Most of my career was negative.

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

When a player gets injured, all negative thoughts come in. Then you bump into people who have had that problem and they start telling you about how difficult it is and that doesn't help.

You just take the negatives and learn to make a positive out of it.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

I always focus on the negatives.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

I've got these high negatives because the Koch brothers have spent a year attacking me.

I try not to dwell on the negatives.

Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

You just - no matter how good things are, or how bad things could be, there's always going to be negativity or something like that going on, and you just gotta, you know, embrace it, I guess. But don't let it dictate kind of like how you're going to live.

With my name, there's been a lot of negativity around it. I'll be real. I understand it.

People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it.

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

I try my best to just ignore the negativity. Which is hard for me because it's a lot to deal with.

I think no matter what or no matter who you are you're always going to get some type of negativity, whatever that may be.

He doesn't like to be hit. Not that anybody likes to be hit, but Brock for whatever reason has shown much more of a dramatic response to the negativity of those shots. To the point where he's not asleep, it isn't like he got knocked out, he's not getting dropped, but he just turns his face away from adversity.

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.