Quotes About Setback

I tore my Achilles' tendon in September 2005.

For any model in this industry, you never know if you're going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate to you, and embrace you. And then being trans is kind of like - I hate to say it - but it's kind of like a setback.

When you're out for a week here and there, it sets you back, and you're out of the team.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

I could not keep my success. I had such a great run. By 93-94, it all came to an end and I had to go to Bangladesh and work there.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

The New World failures may have been greater, the disasters more excessive, the consequences more brutal, but there's a bounce in every fall, a spit on the palm's new start for every setback.

When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.

Losing is a tough blow to take.

The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.

If I never got cut, I wouldn't have the Super Bowl ring.

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

In 2012, we had just won the league with City, and I was really high on confidence going into the Euros when I picked up an injury, which meant I couldn't go.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

Laying another log on the fire of failure

Illness took a terrible toll. "Had it not been for this horrid disorder," Dunmore wrote on June 26, "I should have had two thousand blacks; with whom I should have had no doubt of penetrating into the heart of this Colony.

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.