A Quote by Mike Sherman

I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.

Mike Sherman

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Mike Sherman
American - Coach
Born: December 19, 1954

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Brooke Shields

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. Im pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Brooke Shields

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

James Lane Allen

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.

Joe Ehrmann

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

Bart Starr

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

Marv Levy

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

James Naismith

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

There's different types of coaches in life. I don't have to be a coach on the basketball court. I can be a coach for businesses. I can be a coach for kids. I can be a coach for people who have gone through adversity, because everyone has had some type of damn accident in some form or capacity.

Jay Williams

It's special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.

Mike Holmgren

What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.