Alex Smith Quotes

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

It took me a long time to get my life screwed up, and it's going to take a long time to get it back.

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

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

Listen, trials and difficult times can help you become better and move forward, or they can cause you to step backward. It's how you handle those situations that shows who you can become.

You grow from all those things you go through.

My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.

I'm going to talk about my struggles and come-up.

In my life, I think I have had more than two hundred significant breakthroughs that exponentially accelerated my life forward. However, each and every one of them was preceded by a breakdown that was not pretty, was often scary, and often felt like something I would not get past.

I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that's just an opportunity for your character to grow.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I am constantly evolving, constantly trying to be the best I can be, and learning from things that didn't go too well is definitely a way of doing that.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

I was a diligent little boy at my primary school and then I went to public school and became mediocre at most things and pretty rubbish at others. I had a really tough time. I didn't enjoy it at all. But it made me the man I am today.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.