Ross Barkley Quotes

I have overcome many difficult moments in my career.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

Everything in life is how you respond to it. If everything went perfect all the time - you never lost a game, you got to the championship every time, you always won, you always got the top recruit, you always made the A - you really wouldn't truly appreciate all that goes into it.

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

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

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.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

The best things in life are usually difficult.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

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

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

All great careers are carved out by the sword.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

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.