Quotes About Adversity

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

I've gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice - and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper.

The newspapers were saying, 'You have AIDS.' They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly.

After the whistle, during the whistle. Guys try to sneak stuff in. I just have to be uncompliant with stuff like that. Guys feel they can get away with stuff. I have to just try to not get back at him but make sure I finish through him during the whistle and not do anything that can jeopardize the team or that series of downs.

I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

Idealism doesn't prevent problems.

My left leg had to be amputated from below the knee immediately to prevent gangrene from setting in. I was losing blood alarmingly. Here I was informed that the hospital was out of anaesthesia. With no choice, I instructed them to go ahead with the amputation. The limb was sawed off while I was fully conscious.

It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the best you can be.

I think injuries happen. You can prevent a lot of them, but some of them you can't.

Sometimes the calls just don't go your way. You've just got to learn to deal with those situations and try to prevent yourself from being in the same situation the next game.