Quotes About Adversity

To overcome the emotional hardships of being ridiculed for being different, she turned difference into specialness and transformed her disability into a defining quality of her identity.

Only narcissists and Heroes stood unwavering against the odds. Most rational people got a clue and found their bearings.

The more road blocks the better.

I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.

Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name.

There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

Trump is part of the reason you are suffering. Trump is the one playing on the not-so-level playing field where he wins and you lose.

It's hard dealing with wins and losses.

I always believe every team that wins has to go through some things.

The team that wants it the hardest wins, but there have been times when I came out as the villain.

Andre Ward beat me fair and square on points in a boring fight, a dull affair. Same as when he beat Kessler. Headbutted him to bits, but he knows how to win. He wins ugly, but he knows how to win.

Coming off all my wins I had a lot of criticism.

Football is not a game about numbers. It's about wins and trying to go out and play better than the other team.

If you can get through losses, you can get through wins.

Everybody goes through ups and downs and wins and losses, bumps in the road, and I don't let anything like that slow me down.

You are going to run into some bad stretches - that's just part of the season - but while we're playing well and feeling good, we have to take advantage and get as many wins as we can.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

I don't recommend this, but my dad - to help us get through the winter, he bought a kerosene heater, and he had it in the kitchen so that the furnace wouldn't have to kick off.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.

Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'

When I was at the South Pole, the coldest it got - and I didn't go outside - was minus 111. That was during the winter, so it's dark 24 hours a day, and for some of our jobs, we are required to go outside, even in weather like that.

After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.

If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.