Quotes About Adversity

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I'm the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

I never did get hit, and neither did any of the leaders that I flew wing for.

The only time I've ever been knocked out in my entire life was in a rugby game when I was about 13. I used to play on the wing. The opposing winger has the ball in his hand and he's running full speed at me. I go down to tackle him and he jumps up and his knee hits my temple.

On my back, I have the cross and angel wings: rise above it, no matter what life throws at you. And also, you know, Jesus rose from the grave.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Stephen Thompson is an incredible fighter, and I couldn't quite figure him out the way I wanted to, but here I am, the winner.

When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.

Not only was I an 'X Factor' winner that got dropped by Syco - and when that happens, you're never heard of again - but everyone thought I was a clown.

You score the winner against a tough opponent and you still get heaped on.

When you lose a game of football, you can still be a winner by taking it on the chin and getting on with it.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.

A lot of people hate winners.

There's good times and bad times. That's part of the coaching. You live with the ups and downs of it but at the end, it's about not only winning games, it's about developing men.

If winning or losing is going to define your life, you're on a rough road.

By turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me into motivation for my success.