Comeback Quotes

• You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

  Joel Osteen

  Tough Times, May, Setups

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• A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.

  Donna de Varona

  Champion, Deals, Setback

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• We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Stories, World

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• Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.

  Steve Harvey

  Setups, Setback

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• There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Dream, Second Chance, Failing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every setback is a setup for a comeback!

  Joel Osteen

  Setups, Setback

  Joel Osteen (2013). “Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday: 90 Devotions to Be Happier 7 Days a Week”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• a setback is a setup for a comeback

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Success, Setups

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• Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

  Greg Lake

  Dignity, Defeat, Difficult

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• I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

  Billie Holiday

  Inspirational, Success, Music

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.212, Broadway Books

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• You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking

  "Jimmy Fallon talks about Fever Pitch". movieweb.com. April 04, 2005.

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• By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Attitude, Years

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

  Sheena Easton

  Towns, Shows, Disappointed

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• A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Careers, New Job, Ups & Downs

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• You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, Thinking, Nfl

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• The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

  Mick Taylor

  Gone Away, Groups, Needs

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• If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

  Stefano Langone

  Song, Kids, Titles

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• I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Insults You, Said

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• That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

  Guy Lafleur

  Eight, Should Have, Years

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• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

  Pam Grier

  Years, Four, Four Years

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• That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

  Sid Waddell

  Lazarus, Darts

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• Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

  Aretha Franklin

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• I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

  Jonah Lomu

  Goal, Important, Needs

  "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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• As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

  Iain Banks

  Clever, Smart, Play

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• And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

  Taylor Dane

  People, Records

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