Quotes About Setback

I went from the top of the world 11-0, 25 years old, world champion to a three-fight skid.

Missing the last European Championship in 2016 and the World Cup 2018 has created a gap. That's a shame.

At one point, when I didn't make the 2007 World Cup squad, I was very, very frustrated. Then I became very hard on myself. Whenever I used to go to the nets, or when I trained in the gym, I was very hard on myself. I couldn't sleep; I used to think a lot. Very, very desperate to make a comeback.

In terms of timing, there's never a good time to get injured.

In 2011, I was in the best physical shape of my life. I was one of the five best players in the world and I had won four titles by the end of July. But from one day to another, I couldn't take a step. I couldn't breathe.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

Suicide, like Aspirin, like everything else, costs money. And I didn't have any. Unless you're really brave, suicide is always gonna set you back a couple of bob

But somewhere along the way things started to go wrong.

The stranger acted no differently from the fortune-teller who intuits that you have recently suffered a setback; she is unfailingly correct. Witchcraft merely supplied the culprit, sometimes in advance of her crime, often many years later.

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A setback is just a setup for a comeback.

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

I had finally come to the point where I was catching the momentum but then I had torn my ACL, which is kind of the story of my life where I keep getting injured from an ACL.

Seeing the news on 'FOX Sports Live' of yet another baseball player on crutches always reminds me of the September night in 2005 when I tore my Achilles tendon in Toronto.

When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.

In fiction, every treachery and setback appears to serve some end: the characters learn and grow and come into their own. In life, it is not always clear that the hijacking of our plans is quite so provident or benign.

When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs—even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.

We'll start our analysis with a truism, stark, self-evident and understated: Sometimes things do not go well.

Dave frowned. "You`re telling me about a failure. What happened?

That was a giant ball of fail. What now?

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.