Michael Owen Quotes

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

As you move through life, it's not going to be a bright, sunshiny day every day.

It has been a journey of ups and downs. There have been moments of immense joy and heartbreaks. Everything I have gone through has made me better.

Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.

No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

In life there are worse things (then being fired by the Miami Marlins) and I have experienced them. I have lived through bad moments and I will get through this with support.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.