Dak Prescott Quotes

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

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.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

Dorchester was probably the most important spell. I got kicked around a lot. I was young and it helped me mature as a man and a footballer.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

When you face any adversity in life those are the kind of lessons you can take and remember. Those are the things that are going to help me not just in football but in life, which is priceless.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.