John Elway Quotes

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

Struggle is the best teacher.

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

If you can make it in Rockford, you can make it anywhere.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.