Quotes About Setback

When I broke my arm at the Commonwealth Games three years ago, I was advised that my sporting career had likely reached its end.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

You work for years and years to make the Olympics, then something goes wrong and it's all gone. But that doesn't mean you can't still make your mark in another way. Losing in the Olympic Trials made me that much hungrier to become a world champion as a pro.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.

Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

I got kicked out of Harvard after three weeks.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

A knee injury is never something you want, especially at the time that I got it. I was flying at the time.

Back in 2014, I injured my left knee badly.

Just when you feel like you get on top, something happens that knocks you down.

Had not enough gone wrong?

Just when it felt like you were getting ahead of the game a little, some damn crisis or other would come along to bring you right back to square one.

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

A one-way ticket to Palookaville.

Missing the 1978 World Cup made Maradona an even better player, as he showed on the following year at the Youth World Cup, and he never looked back.

In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

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

I played football at uni right up until I broke my leg. This girl slide-tackled me, studs up and broke it on impact. I was in my fourth year and mentally it made such a difference having that taken away from me when I needed it.

Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.