Joe Cocker Quotes

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.

Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

There is no success without hardship.

I've not had a mean life.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of, OK?

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.