Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coach (Howland) talked about fighting through adversity. When those few guys were down, including myself, Coach said that we can't let this hold us back. And I think Coach has built a mentality of toughness. Several guys stepped up. I think it made us better as a team, and now it's paying off.

Coach Dixon always asked us how we would react to adversity. Now, we are facing adversity like never before, but we are going to keep her fire ignited. We are fighters to the end just like coach Dixon.

Anton had a little sophomore jinx after having such a good rookie year. This year we'll see a different Anton. A little adversity last year might help him, but he will have some serious competition.

Maggie Dixon

Adversity, ladies. How are we going to react?

Lindy Ruff

Adversity is only going to make you stronger if you can battle through it. I really thought he had a strong game. You got the feeling he was under control.

Adversity is always there. There's always a way to overcome it.

Ned Yost

Adversity is a great teacher if you stop and learn something from it. He has done everything he needs to do. He's back on a good roll.

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

Bo Ryan

Adversity can reveal character, and I've certainly seen an awful lot.

Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.

Don Ohlmeyer

The Olympics provides an emotional experience for millions of people. It's an important thing. So much of it is about people triumphing over adversity. Confronting tragedy and bouncing back. To provide some lessons on life.

After a loss like Mayweather, normally you get a guy who's going to go down like he was hit with a feather. But this guy hit. I thought Arturo fought a beautiful fight. There was a lot of adversity and he dealt with it well.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity (Proverbs 17:17).

I wanted a positive message, ... I wanted something about making good decisions, overcoming adversity and being good team players.

Sometimes when adversity strikes in your life or in your sport, you have to rise to the occasion. I thought our kids did that tonight and I'm very proud of them for that.

Sometimes we don't handle adversity real well. There's frustration, from last night.

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.

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.

Joel Przybilla

As long as we come away with a victory, that's all that matters. We lost the past two games in the fourth quarter, and tonight we almost let one slip away. ... No matter what adversity hits us, we've just got to keep on playing.

That's impressive especially with how young this team is and how much adversity they have faced.

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.

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.

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

They're a good team. We knew that. I'm just proud of the way our kids handled the mental adversity that goes with the delay.

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.

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.

Nigel Hamilton

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

Ron Wilson

The test was, could we handle the adversity in the second period and we did.