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Bad Day Quotes To Deal With Adversity

July 3, 2023

Motivating, bad day quotes can help you get through those cruel and tough days. Every athlete can have a rough day and needs some words of inspiration to keep up their spirits. Just getting through a practice or a day is enough.

It is, in fact, the difficult days that define the great players. No matter how trying your day was, it would help if you held your head up. You can always bounce back with a better performance. The most successful athletes know both tough days and good days are part of the process. You have to accept it, learn from it, and become a better player.

Whether you are a beginner or a veteran, everyone will have some challenging times once in a while. So when the going gets tough, try your best to find some inspiration with these bad day quotes.

Table of Contents

  • Quotes About Bad Days
  • Short Bad Day Quotes
  • Funny Bad Day Quotes
  • Having a bad day sayings
  • Strength in Hard Times
  • Taking On Challenges
  • Things Will Get Better
  • So, You Had A Bad Day Insights

Quotes About Bad Days

1.) It was just a bad game. It happens sometimes. You don’t want it, but it’s the reality. I just have to refocus.
Tomas Vokoun

2.) You have good games; you have bad games. You have good years; you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.
Steve Nash

3.) Bad days build better days.
Unknown

4.) You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger.
Aly Raisman

5.) They can because they think they can.
Virgil

Bad day quotes for sports.

Overcoming Adversity Quotations

6.) I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.
David Robinson

7.) Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.
Mandy Hale

8.) Buddha, much like everyone else, has good and bad days.
Todd Barry

9.) Life isn’t about getting and having; it’s about giving and being.
Kevin Kruse

10.) Life is like a mirror. Smile at it, and it smiles back at you.
Peace Pilgrim

11.) Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

12.) Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day; that’s just the way it is!
Dita Von Teese

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Short Bad Day Quotes

13.) Storms don’t last forever.
Unknown

14.) I take it upon myself to get motivated. I know when I have a bad game. It’s something I think about myself when it happens, and I don’t need someone to tell me I didn’t do this or didn’t do that.
Ed Belfour

15.) To be the best, you must learn to handle the worst.
Unknown

16.) Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity.
Wayne Graham

17.) Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

18.) You have good days; you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.

19.) It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
John Guare

20.) Clear your mind of “can’t.”
Samuel Johnson

21.) I believe that everyone has good days and bad days, but you can’t let the bad times beat you down.
Bobby Dole

22.) Don’t let the good days get to your head, and don’t let the bad days get to your heart.
Caroline Ghosn

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Funny Bad Day Quotes

23.) Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.
Lorrie Fair

24.) You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
Bill Watterson

Bad days build better ones.

25.) Anyone can have an off-decade.
Larry Cole

26.) I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.
LeBron James

27.) I’d rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
Simon Sinek

Having a bad day sayings

28.) Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
Matt Kemp

29.) Of course, I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can’t accept that, especially when things don’t go right for United. It all means so much to me to be successful here.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

30.) What cracks me up is people who think I don’t take baseball seriously. It’s the most important thing in my life. They don’t know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can’t, but I’m getting better.
Brady Anderson

31.) It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.
Mary Engelbreit

32.) Just because today sucks doesn’t mean tomorrow won’t be better. Keep going. Never regret a day in your life: Good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and the best days give memories.
Unknown

33.) I’ve learned that no matter what happens or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Maya Angelou

34.) If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet

35.) Staying positive doesn’t mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on hard days, you know that there are better ones coming.
Unknown

Pick Yourself Up

36.) I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.
Charlize Theron

37.) Fear to let fall a drop, and you spill a lot.
Malay Proverb

38.) Keep calm when things don’t go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

39.) By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.
Edwin Elliot

Storms don't last forever.

Strength in Hard Times

40.) You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me, and know that you know, you still have work to do, and you still have a lot of people to impress.
LeBron James

41.) Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill

42.) You play 20 games; you have one bad game. I think any team in this league will live with that.
Scott Brooks

43.) To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein

44.) My secret to survival has been embracing life’s challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate… Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through tough times.
Unknown

Focus On What You Can Do

45.) Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

46.) Everyone is gonna have a bad day; everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.
Gilbert Arenas

47.) I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I’ve let it go even before I’ve left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it’s over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you’re still in the game. After that, you can do nothing.
Mariano Rivera

48.) Sometimes, the most beautiful things are in front of our eyes, and we don’t even notice because we’re either too busy or too afraid to take a closer look.
Katja Michael

49.) Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.
Zig Ziglar

Tip: These bad day quotes carry with them a life lesson for young players. Not everything is always going to be a bed of roses. Work with your players on a process for dealing with adversity.

To be the best, handle the worst quotation.

When the going gets tough quote

50.) When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Unknown

Taking On Challenges

51.) Life’s challenge is to find your ‘big reasons’ why you do what you do. Finding these reasons and being deeply connected to them keeps you going when the going gets tough.
Bo Hanson

52.) When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.
Patrick Stump

53.) We’re out of our comfort zones with depression. I certainly was, and whenever I have bad days now, I speak to someone to get it off my chest.
Ricky Hatton

54.) I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever.
LeBron James

55.) My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.
Tracee Ellis Ross

56.) You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one; each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
Paulo Coelho

57.) I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don’t remember a lot of stuff in my career.
Frank Lampard

Push Yourself

58.) You may have good days, and there may be more bad days than good days, but on the good days, you have to push yourself and get the most out of it as you can.
Shaun Livingston

59.) The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
Aly Raisman

60.) The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
Carl Rogers

Things Will Get Better

61.) It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

62.) Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller

63.) Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

64.) When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Unknown

65.) A positive attitude is a person’s passport to a better tomorrow.
Jeff Keller

66.) The body manifests what the mind harbors.
Jerry Augustine

67.) Keep your face towards the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

68.) Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.
Richelle E. Goodrich

69.) If any player has a bad game, it’s there in the back of your mind in the next game. There’s always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quickly as possible and rectify it.
Rio Ferdinand

70.) You always have the choice to be happy. Learn to understand the purpose of bumps in the road, grow from them and stay positive.
Unknown

So, You Had A Bad Day Insights

71.) Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah

72.) It’s a hard life sometimes, and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is an excuse to weaken.
Walter Dean Myers

73.) Experience is the best teacher. I’ve been through a lot – going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games, and having a lot of bad games. It’s a rollercoaster ride, and I’m just happy I’m a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.
Kevin Durant

74.) You must tell yourself, ‘No matter how hard it is or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.
Les Brown

75.) When nothing goes my way, when all attempts fail, when the darkest clouds in the sky seem bent on hovering over me while everyone with whom I come into contact flashes a nasty scowl, I find some comfort in the thought of a fresh tomorrow. I am thankful for the opportunity to try again.
Richelle E. Goodrich

76.) There are going to be good days and bad days… and you have to learn to fight through that.
Zach LaVine

77.) I dove into an endless sea of gratitude from which I’ve never emerged.
Patch Adams

78.) No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Tomorrow Will Be Better

79.) Tomorrow could be the best day of your life. You just gotta get there.
Unknown

80.) Many bad days were preceded by a bad night’s sleep.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

81.) Sometimes, the most beautiful things are in front of our eyes, and we don’t even notice because we’re either too busy or too afraid to take a closer look.
Katja Michael

82.) Exude happiness, and you will feel it back a thousand times.
Joan Lunden

83.) What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock

Notable Bad Day Quotes

84.) A bad day only lasts 24 hours.
Unknown

85.) Bad days don’t always stay.
Ross Barkley

86.) So far, you’ve survived 100% of your bad days.
Unknown

87.) We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

88.) Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

89.) You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.
Charlie Chaplin

90.) When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Haruki Murakami

91.) The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Mulan

92.) You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

93.) It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz

94.) No rain; no flowers.
Unknown

95.) Life is tough, but so are you.
Unknown

Inspirational Bad Day Quotes

96.) Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.
Anna White

97.) There are good days, and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Lawrence Welk

98.) There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions.
Amit Kalantri

99.) Was it a bad day? Or, was it five minutes you milked all day?
Unknown

100.) I will not focus on the bad days. I choose to live in gratitude.
Marcela Valladolid

101.) Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Buddha

By Mike O’Halloran

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