Tom Glavine Quotes

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.

You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football.

When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

I've had to fight through a lot of adversity, but I just kept fighting.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

There's going to be bumps along the way, in any walk of life, not just as a professional footballer with injuries. You've got to be resilient with it and keep pushing through. It'll make you stronger as well.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.

I'm familiar with adversity.