Quotes About Adversity

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

It's a funny thing, life... as much as you don't want the sun to come up, it comes up the next day. Life continues on and you have to make a choice in how you handle it.

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.'

I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

I had been released by Southampton and was back playing Sunday League football when I signed for Bournemouth. I grew to love the club.

When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington.'

Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.

I think with my generation, your first game of senior football was often a Sunday League game of football. Sometimes you're playing on pitches that aren't great, you've no referee, you've no goal nets.

I miss the combative back and forth, strategic elements of the game on Sunday. Making the adjustments, and what you've prepared for all week all of a sudden isn't there.

I just have to continue to prepare and try to be the best guy I can be every Sunday, whether that's coming off a good game or a bad game.

Every time you step in the stadium on Sunday, you're facing a good team. This is the NFL.

When my boy has lost 4-0 on a Sunday morning, I'm the Dad in the car saying: 'OK mate, don't worry, we can do this or do that'. When I got in the car after losing a game I sat in the backseat and had to keep my mouth closed.

Sometimes people start with you. Especially in local places - 'Hey, go get your shine box.' So I go out earlier. I wear sunglasses and a cap... That's the downside of being successful.

There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.

It's never sunny in Buffalo.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.

It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Football is not only sunshine.

Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.