Quotes About Adversity

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Hello Satan, it's time to go. Me and the devil, walkin' side by side.

Time is my greatest enemy.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.