Quotes About Adversity

People have ups and downs. Things happen for a reason.

If you are competing at a high level, you have to accept that there are going to be ups and downs, because that is part of this business.

It's been a bit of an unconventional journey - lots of ups and downs for me. But the biggest thing I've learned over the past few years is just to be present and really enjoy the journey.

There have been many ups and downs; I made a few mistakes and learnt from them.

I've been through a lot. I've had so many ups and downs in my career. I think a lot of it is you just have to be the same guy every day.

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.

In athletics, I've gone through ups and downs my whole life.

Coming in, if you are the No. 1 pick, the team that is picking No. 1 is there for a reason. There are going to be ups and downs - you've just gotta stay steady through the process.

There are ups and downs in my career and I take both in my stride.

I've suffered many, many ups and downs in my life. And so does everyone.

I think, in every footballer's life there are all sorts of ups and downs.

I've won, I've failed - so many things have gone wrong for me. There's been ups and downs.

My life is just like anybody else, there's ups and downs, but I always have to put it in perspective.

Life's about ups and downs, season's about ups and downs.

I just think there's something special about staying with your team for a long time and fighting through the ups and downs. Then, when good things happen the feeling is better because you fought through the downs.

The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.

I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.