Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Baker

That's probably the biggest confidence builder you can have. You want to be efficient in these games, but at the same time, it's not bad to see some adversity and get yourself out of it.

(The Badgers) have been so close so much of the season. They've had so much adversity, so many injuries, you knew sooner or later, they probably were going to catch up to somebody and they were able to catch up to Minnesota.

The airlines are always looking for the silver lining in adversity, and I think this is likely to be a genuine one.

William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head

It's definitely a historical moment, ... They say that adversity unites people. This is what is happening today.

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.

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.

I'm proud of them. With all the adversity they had to overcome, that was a tremendous, tremendous win.

I'm proud of the kids for staying together through adversity, because they did. They believed in each other, and they believed in the coaches. I think that's what pulled us through tonight.

Mark Richt

I'm proud of our guys. You always wonder how your team is going to react to some adversity. We were losing at the half, but the guys did a great job of doing what they had to do to win. Some people may not think it's a beautiful victory, but it is to me.

I'm proud of my guys. In every great game, like this one, you have to overcome adversity. These guys responded after halftime and did it with fundamentals. This was a big win for us.

Pat Summitt

I'm really proud of what this team has accomplished this year. They have faced tremendous adversity and come through it. They have great character and have been a great group to coach.

Gregg Troy

I'm really proud of these girls. With all of the adversity we've had to fight through this season and during this meet, they were outstanding.

I learned that you always have to believe in yourself, ... I'm sure there are going to be many more times in my career when I'm going to have to deal with adversity again.

I hope this is a sign that we are finally coming together. Tonight we really showed some resiliency and escaped a little adversity and our defense played great.

That's part of adversity -- somebody going down and somebody stepping up. I think Gavin Grant has been playing great for us. We just need to have more guys playing well.

That really came at the right time for us. We just haven't played real good baseball, and it's tough with a young club when you have adversity early.

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.

It was a big win for us to come back tonight when a little adversity came our way, and we responded real well.

Tommy Amaker

It was an incredible time for him in terms of emotions and 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.