Roberto Firmino Quotes

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

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.

My biggest inspiration has been life for me. Basic survival has been my biggest teacher. Surviving in Mumbai for so many years has been a huge ordeal.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

In the world today , it’s easy to quit. I believe in putting up the fight.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.