Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's always tough to win on the road. For the first time this year we were down at halftime. For a team facing adversity on road, we battled back to get to overtime and win, so I'm pretty proud of them.

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.

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.

It's great to see him come through that. He's been through a lot of adversity with injuries since he has been here. He has had a great senior year, and you always want that to happen to good people who continue to work hard, and that was certainly him.

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.

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.

Sydney Smith

A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure

William Shakespeare

A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with like weight of pain,As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

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.

Billy Donovan

Everybody was worried about the adversity he was going to face if he didn't make shots. We didn't know the adversity was riding a bike.

Everyone took that game and realized we had to overcome some adversity. We were we 1-1 in the conference. Anything could have happened since then, but we managed to take it one game at a time and finish the first half 6-1.

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.

James E. Faust

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Frank Herbert

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

Harold B. Lee

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

Mike Shanahan

What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.

Nancy Mitford

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Julian Assange

While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

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Harry S Truman

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

H. L. Mencken

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.