Quotes About Adversity

If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

When I was really young, I busted my nose when I was racing. The first thing my dad asked me was: 'Are you OK?' I said, 'Can you fix the car for tomorrow?' And I won the race the next day.

It was especially hard for me, as a professional pilot. In all of my years of flying - including combat in Korea - this was the first time that my aircraft and I had not come back together. In my entire career as a pilot, 'Liberty Bell' was the first thing I had ever lost.

I was six years old and I had major back surgery and that paralyzed me for three months. When my back got fixed the first thing the doctor said was no contact sports and no trampolines.

Everything that's going on within the peloton - there's about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it - I love the fact that it's so epic. You crash on a bike, the first thing you do is try and get back up on it. No whinging!

With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.

Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.

Losing friends, it's the hardest thing that has ever happened to me and I still got back in the car after crashes. I'd get back in with broken bones and it just seemed easy, there was the drive to do it.

I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

The hardest thing about this industry is not working.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Everyone at home sitting on their couches, they think it's so easy to fight. Stepping inside that cage is probably the hardest thing in the world to do. I truly believe that.

I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

Not playing guitar has been the hardest thing about having ALS.

The hardest thing to do when people are hurting you is to remain a decent person.

That's sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do in gymnastics.

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.