Quotes About Adversity

Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.

When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook.

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

Of course, people are going to criticise when things aren't going well. As players, we have to take on responsibility and prove people wrong.

I love it when people criticise me. There is no better feeling than when you make them quiet.

Criticism is normal in football.

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I need to do.

I was not used to criticism.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

You will get criticism throughout your career. All the best players have had it at some stage, and they haven't let it ruin their careers. I won't, either.

I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

I am used to a lot of criticism.