Quotes About Adversity

Even when matches don't work out the way you planned, you've always got to stay strong in defence; it's a matter of willpower and intelligence.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

If I win, it's a bonus. If I lose, the sun still comes up the next day, and it's all good.

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Sometimes you win by losing.

That's boxing - one punch can win a fight.

To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

At just 16 years old, I was told that my back would never be the same again. My well-being had been neglected for the opportunity to win a gold medal.

Super villains and bad guys win in real life.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

In a normal series you can have a couple of bad games and still win it.

You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen.

There are matches you have to win, but when you realise that you cannot win, you have to make sure you don't lose.