Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our guys are still doing some really good things. In some cases we've played excellent basketball during this stretch. We've overcome some adversity with some health issues and hopefully we'll continue to heal and get better.

Our kids are good at adversity. We've worked on that all year long, on being mentally tough for 80 minutes and they hung in there. I was worried about our composure there for a minute with the heat bearing down on us. But we've been behind before and we've been tied and had to come back, so that's nothing new to us.

Our guys overcame adversity with meet management and finished the last event in total darkness. It was a very nice way to start off our conference season.

Overall, we worked hard and fought through a lot of adversity tonight.

Our people are responding to adversity with steadfast determination, yet still maintaining the spirit to enjoy life.

Our team really hasn't faced much adversity at all this year, especially in the second half. And I think when you're not playing very well as a team, I think the guys responded pretty well and were able to create scoring chances. They kept at it in a tough rink to play in, and we got the tying goal and we were able to end up winning the game.

Billy Donovan

Our team battled through the adversity of the game. They battled through not shooting the ball, and we found a way, defensively, to win the game.

Out of adversity comes progress. The water will be so clean it could be used for kidney dialysis.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

We'll adapt. We always tell our guys they need to be able to handle any and all adversity, so that fits right into that light.

C. S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Beth Riesgraf

It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Bernard Barton

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

Aron Ralston

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Bill Vaughan

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Fred Smoot

Just a little bit more adversity. We've just got to get through it.

Jack Campbell

Last year, everything went smooth for him, and this season, he's had to deal with some obstacles and adversity. He does possess great character, and he didn't panic. He stayed the course, and I think a lot of people who've gotten to the level he's at in track would have panicked. Once he was fairly healthy, he got back out and did the work. He's always kept his poise.

Starting off at the beginning of the season, that was one of our goals. With or without the adversity, that was always the team goal.

Vinny Testaverde

Somehow we just have to hold it together. Sometimes when you have adversity it brings along special moments in life. Hopefully this can be one of them.

Steve Williams

That adversity built a fire beneath her. She had to struggle a great deal to reach the top. Now that (she's there) , she doesn't want to get knocked down.

My whole mentality was similar to the Tiger Woods approach. I had a lot of opportunities to jump in training and competition. I focused only on improving these skills. Adversity and racing gave me confidence to get through it.

Mark had to deal with some adversity and after missing the free throws could have hidden. But he showed a lot of character by stepping up and knocking down the three in such a critical situation.

Tom Wilson

Lincoln came out with some things we weren't used to seeing. We overcame some adversity and we were able to make adjustments.

Gary Barlow

Lionel has learned to deal with adversity. He's a fine player and person.

I think going through that stuff made him a better person. When you go through adversity in life, it helps you on the football field.

I thought he won the fight. I just knew that the cuts were going to make the fight more difficult. Now, we don't have the Monty we usually see. But he showed he can go through adversity and still come out and be a world-title holder.

Ella Wilcox

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Man, I'm willing to do anything that will help. I haven't been through something like this my whole career.

It has been a struggle, going through so much adversity. Sometimes, it feels like I'm pushing a car up a North Bergen hill, like 76th Street. But I love what I do and look forward to it every day. It's not a job for me. Coaching basketball is a passion.

Al Montoya

It has been an all right year in which I definitely improved and had to face a lot of adversity, which is part of being a pro and how you react. I feel I've dealt with them fairly well when I had the chance to go out there and felt good. I think I made a difference and gave the team a chance to win, and hopefully that story is not ending too soon. Now it's all about getting momentum early, especially in our own building.

I think this shows how we've been able to fight through adversity. The way this team has persevered has been something else.

Sathya Baba

Real Peace of mind has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and whole in prosperity.

Martin Biron

Our main objective as a group was to respond to any adversity that we faced all year. That's where I think our major accomplishment was, we battled injuries, we battled people putting us down, we battled a dry spell a few weeks ago. So it may have surprised other people but we knew in our dressing room that we had character, leadership - a lot more maturity than we had two, three seasons ago.