Quotes About Adversity

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

You have to be resilient.

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

The Pakistanis are very resilient people.

I've always been very positive and very resilient.

You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall apart and pick yourself up again. And putting yourself back together, that improves on what you were before.

I feel the American people are resilient.

I had to be resilient playing non-League because I was 17 playing against men. I always knew how to beat someone and how to use my body. And that's one thing academy players don't really learn. Because in the academy you're playing against people your age. I was always playing against men.

I've gotten resistance for my entire career.

Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.

In my life, being true to myself certainly hasn't made things easier. You could never accuse me of taking the path of least resistance.

I resolved that I would not let the fear of death hold me back.

I think I am pretty resilient and resourceful.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Rankings, for most players, are like adversity because we all want to be the best. So you've just got to approach it like you would a tough situation on the court. You just have to respond.

Fear is a normal human response. It certainly is for me.

I know there is a lot of pressure on a goalie, a lot of responsibilities, but if you add on to yourself more than you need to, it makes it harder to deal with the adversity.

When things go well, we win, it's easy. But we know our responsibilities here at PSG, a club loved by many people but also hated by many. We must stay united.

I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

Obviously, when the results aren't going your way, it's difficult to find too much joy in the matches.

If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.

One or two wrong turns where I'm from could put you on a path that's hard to reverse... We had to stick together to get through down South.