“I have to give the girls credit, we've been on the road a lot and have had to rise above adversity with missed calls, bad bounces, and things that didn't go our way, and they've gotten used to it and fought through it.”
“The season was great to me because we battled through so much adversity and still had a positive year. They tried suspending our seniors, then our coach, then injuries plagued us, but through it all, we stuck together.”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“I look forward to coming back again. I've lost more than I've won in life, so, believe me, I'm pretty much understanding of the situation and I can deal with it. I can deal with adversity.”
“We just make way too many mistakes to win. It's one of those things. We're dealing with things on how to fight adversity and getting ready to step up and be mature, but when you've got young guys ...”
We underestimate the power of our own mind – for both good and bad. If we can learn to control our mindset and our responses to the adverse things in our lives, we can absolutely control our own destiny.
Hope is the one positive force to help us persevere during our darkest storms. Jesus gives us hope when He walks beside us through the fiery furnace and helps us rise above adversity.
“People use that as a measuring stick of how this guy handles adversity, ... It wasn't losing a couple games in a row. It was a lot larger than that. I think he did a good job. It was pretty awesome how he brought everybody with him.”
“In high school certainly you can do a lot of things to increase attendance, but certainly if there's an adverse consequence the kids have set up and taken notice that underage citations are being given out and they're getting back to school,”
“Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte”