Jonny Bairstow Quotes

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

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

There have been a lot of challenges over the years that I have overcome.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

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

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

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.'

Life comprises of both: opportunities as well as challenges.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

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

I came to understand and observe that we're all going to face obstacles. We're going to have challenges. We're going to fail. We're going to have success. But all of it is going to ultimately be character-building. And it's not going to deter us from wanting to achieve, to strive, and be successful.

I believe I overcame a lot.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.

I've been defying the odds my entire life.

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

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.