Quotes About Adversity

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.