"Adversity, personally, it's adversity that keeps me standing," he tells her.
"The adversity that comes along the way, you just sort of deal with it.
But it's also how we react to adversity that defines us.
"Any adversity that comes your way, you put your head down, you bite down and you grind through it," he said.
For a while, the history of adversity that has long fed Irish fiction seemed as if it might sink into the past.
A cluster of like-minded players, Cherington believed, could steer the team through the inevitable distractions and adversity that arise every season.
He must also show emotional strength, for every tennis match has periods of adversity that can produce anger, frustration and capitulation.
As all of her friends know well, it was her ability to laugh long and loudly, often in the face of adversity, that sustained over a lifetime.
If so, Lawrence will need to show a knack for triumph in the face of adversity that would cast even Katniss into the shadows.
But trees are rooted in the ground, living, growing, standing up to the seasons and any adversity that comes their way".
It is how they come back from adversity that is the real challenge".
