Gary Rossington Quotes

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that's life.

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.

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.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.

There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

When things don't go your way, it bites you from within, and you have to find a way to get out of it.

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That’s what it’s all about.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

The person who lets them get you down, any kind of problem, is the person that fades out. So you've got to be strong enough; you don't like it, but you've got to be strong enough to accept what's going on and that you're going to fight it or whatever it takes to overcome this matter. That's the way I feel.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.