Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Things came together through so much adversity this year. There were so many issues that it took time. But the character came out in them, and that was important when they lost Monday night. Two days later, we're champions.

There's very few people or groups that don't have to endure some type of adversity before they grow from it. I think most every season has got that element. Last year our team responded really well.

Mike Sherman

The thing is the guys battled. They didn't stop. I think the team as a group are fairly resilient, fairly together. I don't see them cracking in spite of any of the adversity we face.

Clint Hurdle

Nothing provides an opportunity for growth more than adversity. They can handle it one of two ways: they can deal with it, become better from it, work through it. They can feel sorry for themselves and make a bad situation worse. So, it's all part of growing up and I expect them to handle it very professionally.

Notice the painful lashes upon your shoulders, done so solely by the crop attached to your belt.

Tino Martinez

Not just personally, either. More because of what the team went through. The injuries, the adversity ... we went through so much to get here, and to kind of put it all together at the end of the year is pretty satisfying for everyone in this room.

David Oliver

It's nice because we've been dealing with this adversity the last couple of months. It's fun to play this way.

Each one is a new year. I'm just so happy for these kids because they've been through some adversity this year. But they kept a good work ethic.

Everyone contributed tonight. We fought through some adversity there, but guys filled in and we?re still alive.

Jason Giambi

Every New Yorker, they love to see somebody face adversity and still stand tall and not fall by the wayside. They like to see you man up and you take your beating, but you just keep going and ticking and keep working hard. And they love those stories. It's a tough town here, it really is, and a lot of players fall by the wayside out here.

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.

It's awesome. Luke has come through adversity with his retina and pneumonia. He's worked for this his whole life.

Dave Tippett

It's a challenge when we're playing desperate teams. We looked tired. Even when we were pushing, we looked tired. We have to get the guys some rest. But I think this adversity can be good for us if we use it to our advantage.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

It's a great opportunity. Obviously, there's going to be some adversity up there as far as playing at their stadium against the reigning world champions and all the other things that will be spoken about all week long. It's a great opportunity for us to show what kind of team we think we are.

Matt Hasselbeck

It's a great feeling in our locker room right now, because we did come together. There is something a little bit more special about fighting through adversity and hanging in there in a tough game against a really good defense. Guys get hurt. Pork Chop Womack filled in at left tackle for Walter Jones for a couple of plays. He said something like, 'Did I make you nervous in there when Walt was out?' I told him no.

Michael Robinson

I told myself that, Mike, you can overcome adversity on the field, ... In the past when things didn't go right, I started to hang my head and it was like a snowball effect.

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.

Ben Howland

They both are premier players that have grown through a lot of adversity already. Both of them got a lot of experience last year and playing over the summer.

They were playing with their hearts those last couple of innings. We were very shaky, but we battled through adversity.

No matter what adversity is thrown at us, we find a way to get through it. We're battle tested, and we're warriors. We proved that.

It was a good start for the year. We overcame injuries and other adversity and challenged for the final.

It was a great win considering the adversity of being without a couple of players. Cal has a very good team and a very tough home court. I was really pleased. It was a total team effort with a number of kids who haven't had a big game in a while.

Kelvin Sampson

It was a crazy game, that's why they call it Bedlam. We missed a lot of free throws and had opportunities. Both teams deserved to win this game. We had adversity at every turn and played to win.

It was one of the most efficiently dominating games I have ever seen. I'm very proud of how these kids never wavered amidst all of the adversity that they faced on the floor, and I hope that bodes well for the future, especially once we get healthy.

It's what I get paid to do, ... What separates the players that stay in this business is the mental game .... From a mental standpoint, my job is to respond to adversity.

Don Davis

It's going to be tough, ... but this team has reacted to adversity very well in the past and this will be no different.

It's good for my blood pressure and good for the girls to experience a win. It's good that these girls were rewarded with a victory for all the hard work they've put in. They've had to fight through a lot of adversity this year, so this is nice for them.

Alex Rodriguez

It's frustrating because we had the type of year that I thought could be a world championship year with all of the adversity we had all year, ... We left our guts out on the field.

It shows no matter what the adversity is they dug in.

It's been a rough week for us, but our guys battled through adversity and came back again, like they have all year.