Gordon Strachan Quotes

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

What don't break you will make you.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

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

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' In my case, I suppose it's not just a cliche.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.