Richard Gough Quotes

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

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

You don't play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.