Tony Ferguson Quotes

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Fight with a happy heart.

I am not someone who lets my head get down.

I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn't look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I've been given, I've taken.

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

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.

I think positively, you can't harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, you'll never get rid of me.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

No matter what comes your way, just don't let it phase you, you can overcome anything.

High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

I always believed in myself when I was not playing much.

The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what's in your way.

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.