Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.