Patrick Collison Quotes

The mark of the man is how he responds to situations. You're not going to avoid tough times. We're all over the barrel some of the time. What are you going to do about it?

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

There's always going to be adversity.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

I'm familiar with adversity.

Young players will suffer at times and have days when they can't cope or adjust.

Not every single minute of your career will go well, individually and collectively, and not every season will go how you want it to, but it's how you react to that.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.