Quotes About Adversity

Life is about falling down, getting up, and moving ahead.

I'm not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.

It's tough to go out there and win a game with everybody healthy, let alone when everybody's kind of falling apart.

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

There's days where your shot's not falling.

You can survive your income falling if it's not dramatic. Your income can decrease for a long time before you start living beyond your means.

When you win, there's congratulations. When you lose, the world is falling apart.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

I'm familiar with adversity.

We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

It's difficult when you play the best teams in the world. You have to be strong as a team and defend and get clean sheets.

We will fight against good teams.

I'm a hardened old guy. I've been cut in so many ways and dumped on by so many teams, I've been through it all, but I'd do it all over.

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.