Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.
When I go in to fight week, I go, 'Maybe I'm going to be that guy on the highlight reel that gets knocked out.' I'm always thinking, 'How am I going to react? Am I going to be a sore loser?' I'm almost checking myself in case something bad happens.
No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.
Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.
When things don't go right, people are always trying to protect themselves.
What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?
