Richard Nixon Quotes

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

To the stars through thorns.

We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.

It's easier to lose than to win.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

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

There is winning and there is misery.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

I might win a championship. I might win two or three. I might not. The journey to get there is, for me, the most important.

I always believe every team that wins has to go through some things.