Quotes About Adversity

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

Football is like life and I know life.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.