Quotes About Adversity

If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

If other people have problems with my competitions, then there's nothing I can do.

You coach at a have-not school, and you have to have a competitiveness and a resolve and resiliency about you that's different, or you'll never make it. You've got to find a way to do more with less.

It was tough for me not to play, but it was cool. But it was tough because I'm a competitor, and I like to be out there with my guys. That's all it's about for me.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I needed to go through certain life experiences, and not just on the court, to make me into the competitor that I am, and also the person.

Sometimes a guy is going to get you here and there, you compete. He is getting paid just like you're getting paid, and he is a competitor just like you are. But if a guy can just stop me a whole game by himself, and I can't do nothing about it or I'm fatiguing or I'm not strong throughout the whole game, then it's time for me to hang them up.

Obviously, you want to do well. As a competitor you don't like not doing well.

Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.

Not everyone's going to love you or what you do. Someone's always going to complain about something.

Sometimes people who seem to have It made complain the loudest when things don't go right and I don't want to be that kind of person.

The calls aren't always going to go your way, and you can't complain about it. I tried to learn that as a young player, and you just got to play through it.

In any fight that I go into, I don't like to complain about stuff because at the end of the day, a fight's a fight.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

I am a complete wuss.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

We need to show character whenever we concede a goal and try to make a comeback.

As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it's what comes with a move that I've made. I've just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.

When you play on bad surfaces, you have to show your character and keep your concentration for the whole 90 minutes.

I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

The concern is that when you are playing against a team that has a lot of quality you know that you can work hard for a long time and then in a second they can produce some quality necessary to score a goal.

As an international player, the players have to adapt to the condition no matter what the situation is.