Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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).

Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a way, it's been nice because we're all learning and growing. Once we got past the stage where we were making errors, we started to understand what we are capable of doing. There's always a chance.

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.

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 Reston

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

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.

It's a huge game to beat Benton. It's a big rivalry. I get up for the Benton week. I think our kids do, maybe we do even more than the kids because we remember how it was years ago. I think it's still a big rivalry. We had a ton of adversity this week and our seniors really came together. We had a teammate (FCHS senior Wes Miller) who was in a coma in St. Louis. I had no idea how we were going to show up. We had some kids miss practice to go up there, and that's fantastic. They really stood by their fallen teammate. We've been preaching all week to come together as a team and I think we did tonight.

It?s all about us having that focus and being together even when we hit adversity. We just have to keep banding together and fighting to come out with a win.

It's all about overcoming adversity. It's about being down and coming back.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

For every game he plays, he just provides more evidence that he belongs. We've watched him close and he's shown no signs of fatigue. It's a long season and we'll go through some adversity as a team and he will as an individual. But we feel comfortable that he's a mature kid.

For all the adversity he faced this year, he never once made it about him, it was always about the team. Considering all the circumstances he was under, I can only imagine that was extremely hard.

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.

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.

James E. Faust

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

James E. Faust

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.