Quotes About Adversity

There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Crap happens, you know? It happens, especially when you're in this sport long enough.

2020 has been crap.

In the car business, sometimes you crash.

Most riders, experienced riders, if they go down in a crash and don't get up straight away then they know something is wrong.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

Of course there have been times when I've done crazy things. But I don't think I'm crazy. I just grew up in a crazy world.

Adversity creates comedy.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.

We learnt a lot from county cricket - even if we did not earn stacks of money from it.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

I totally enjoyed playing in Australia. I think they play very tough cricket, and the brand of cricket they play is very strong.

In international cricket, the atmosphere changes, and the interest level is higher, but for a cricketer, it is still a game he has to play.

Whenever you play international cricket, there is always a challenge.

I enjoy playing Test cricket, especially against India in India.

It's the games you lose or struggle in that you learn most from in Test cricket.

As part of the England women's cricket team, we had our own rickety period at the end of 2005 through to the beginning of 2007. Learning from our mistakes, by 2009 we were the best team in the world.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.