Herm Edwards Quotes

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.

You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Nothing is more reasonable than to resolve to bear with an evil, from which a greater good must certainly arise.

You go through tough times. What I personally believe in is you should forget the stats. But also, it pushes you to see the areas where you have to work on to be a consistent team.

I got let go at City, but I always believed I could play at the top level.

There will be ups and downs. Other teams will adapt to us, but everything will be OK in the end. We know we have to learn everything perfectly for this to work.

Every team learns when they lose a game.

Sometimes you have to look at a start and say, 'Nothing is wrong.' Even when you get lit up, you still have to say 'Nothing is wrong.'

You have to take the good with the bad in life.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

It's life, it's hockey. You just can't worry about it.