Quotes About Adversity

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.