Quotes About Adversity

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Everything is not perfect in our world.

We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it.

Ours was not a normal or easy life.

Life doesn't have to be as hard as we make it for ourselves a lot of the time.

What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

There's always a way where we knock ourselves back down. It's the culture that we've been born into.

We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.

No matter what, you're going to have hard days out here. There's going to be a drop here or a tough pass that you didn't come down with there.

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

There's not really a guy like me out here doing it with 7 1/2 fingers - still.

There were so many stories and so many instances where I had guys telling me that this game was for two-handed players and not for one-handed players, and I'll go out here and get myself hurt.

I don't know why it took me some time to get used to the ways of this industry because I have realized that out here when people want to pull you down they really pull you down.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

Never let your circumstances determine your outcome in life.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.

Each match has a predetermined outcome. But it doesn't always turn out that way. A lot of tempers get very heated in the ring.

A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.

The closest I have come to death was when I had my crash at the Blois outdoor velodrome in central France in September 1969.

It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.

I know that my body and my mind can take anything that any space outfit wants to give me - high altitude chamber test, which is fine; centrifuge test, which I know I can do five and six G's. These things are easy for me.

There will be bowlers who will be having a good day, so it is important to give them their due. At the same time, you have put pressure on other bowlers who are not having an entirely good outing.