Quotes About Adversity

Being involved with the first team, be it in the Premier League or the Europa League, you just have to take it as it comes. You keep all the nerves inside and just play your normal game.

I realise the Premier League is a very tough league and I know I have to be stronger.

A lot of people don't realise how mentally tough the Premier League is.

The Premier League is always difficult - Champions League or not.

You only get half a chance sometimes against these big boys in the Premier League.

When things go wrong it is magnified 10 times more in the Premier League.

It is not easy to bring the methods of a new manager to the Premier League.

My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.

Each fight has its own preparations and challenges.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

I always prepare for the worst.

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

I don't have to prepare any differently because it's Messi, because every day in training I am up against people like Rooney, Berbatov, Ronaldo, and Tevez, so you know what to do against big players.

Of course I have to work harder because I have my limitations, and I have to prepare better and in a different way my body and mental strength, but that is part of my life.

When Mike Hammond and I started Gateway 12 years ago on my father's cattle farm, we knew it could be big. We talked big. But there's no way we could have been prepared to go from less than $300 million in revenues to $5 billion in six years. You can't so much prepare for that kind of growth as sort of ride it and try to manage it.

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But nothing prepares you for your first film.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.