Quotes About Adversity

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.

I think I pose some problems for Georges that he maybe hasn't seen in the past.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

I think for a lot of guys when they get taken down it's like the end of the world and they freak out about it but training with the team I have here, I have been in a lot of bad positions before and I'm no slouch on the ground either, so if it goes down there, I'm comfortable and can win the fight down there or get back to my feet and end it there.

Dudes are coming at me every day; I'm playing different positions on the defensive end. I'm really working on that, because that's the next level. In the league, everybody can dribble.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.

In moments of difficulty there are positives you can take and lessons you can learn.

If there's something negative about you, you've got to bring out the positive to the front.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing.

When you are injured you have to keep a positive mindset and keep moving forward.

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

Honestly, after working for more than 10-11 years in the industry, I've learnt that you have to only take the positives.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who's made one negative comment about me, I've probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

I've lost before, you need great people around you, your family, people giving you positive energy.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

I think the best way to fight your detractors is to produce positive results and not think about them, but think about winning the hearts and minds of North Carolinians - or Americans - on good policy.