Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Babcock

There's adversity; what are you going to do with it? Are you going to turn it into a positive ?

Right now we deal with adversity in a very poor way. We deal with adversity by putting our head down and turning on each other.

Sara has battled through adversity and has provided our program with the passion that is needed to play at this level. She has left her mark on the program in the record books and will always be mentioned when people talk about the Virginia softball program.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Rarely do you get dominated at home. I thought we looked frustrated and didn't respond well to adversity.

Don Davis

Randle El is that kind of guy. He poses a lot of those same kind of problems. (But) this team reacts well to adversity ... This special teams unit will get better.

Our seniors did a great job of stepping up for us. They worked through a lot of adversity and always stayed positive and led by example.

Ken Green

As if it was an injury, teams have to overcome adversity. What you see is a team that's very spiritual and plays with a purpose. We were playing with lots of emotion and a lot of intensity. What I like about it is it's consistent. It was a complete, total team effort.

Epictetus

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

And we got together and said, 'Let's just push that to the side.' We had suspensions, other stuff. Sometimes adversity brings people closer together.

Ron Zook

The way we handle adversity is going to determine what kind of team we are. I told them last night that this is our first true test of adversity and how we bounce back, how we handle it, and how we compete against a good Iowa football team will determine what kind of football team we are, and where we are at.

This group of girls continues to show up and play hard in what has been an adversity filled season.

This game was actually a blessing in disguise for us. They came at us really hard. They're a well-coached team, and we had to deal with some adversity in that third period.

James Reston

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

You're paid to do a job. You just have to block it out and focus on what you're doing. There's going to be adversity in anything. I had no problems focusing.

Andrew Shue

You're going to have to take a chance: you're going to have to reach out to touch people to make things happen. And it's not going to be easy, because there's going to be all kinds of adversity against you and people who are going to say things that make you feel like you aren't capable.

James Allen

Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it.

This is exactly what we need to do, to have adversity and overcome it. This is big and it can set a tone. We didn't play our best game and maybe we shouldn't have been in that position to begin with, but to see them hang in there and come back is as important as anything that could have happened.

Horace Greeley

The Republic need to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering; so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes

There's a lot of football loft to be played. We've struggled with adversity -- a coaching change at the beginning of the season and another (last week). Now, we're trying to come together as a team. We feel like we have the foundation to win another division championship.

It's just special. The adversity these girls have faced and the way they've gone through it with such character is just so exciting.

Craig Biggio

It's a tough loss. We've been through a lot of adversity all season long. We've been able to bounce back and come back.

It was a lot of fun. The biggest thing is that it taught me how to overcome adversity, how to pick and choose friends and how to trust people. I think that's the biggest thing.

Allan Ray

It was real hard, but it was a great learning experience. It taught us how to deal with adversity.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a testing of character adversity is.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Horace

A good resolve will make any port.

Horace

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it