Sports Adversity Quotes

#1. Find what you love, now give all your heart to get it.

Debasish Mridha

#2. We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

Matt Holliday

#3. Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Alison Gopnik

#4. In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Jakob Bohme

#5. A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

Tom Landry

#6. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.

JohnA Passaro

#7. Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Seneca The Younger

#8. That is sacrilegious. You just totally dissed man code. If we don't have man code, the world will fall apart."

Kip Paxton

Sasha Marshall

#9. It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

Dan Quisenberry

#10. I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals ... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.

Louis L'Amour

#11. Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

William Arthur Ward

#12. I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent many delightful hours over both these works.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.

Zicheng Hong

#14. The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

Adele