Greg Rutherford Quotes

The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.

No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

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

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

You can and you must expect suffering.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.