Hank Aaron Quotes

Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

To the stars through thorns.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

I think we all face situations in life, where we are not sure if we will be able to make it. I have been through such experiences and for me, the real hero is the one who rises above obstacles.

My parents never planted the seed that anything was impossible. They planted the seed that things were doubly hard for a black man. My brothers and I made sure we outworked people and were better than everyone we were around.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor, and I'll get through anything people can throw at me.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

Something's bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you're a champ or you're a contender.