I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. George S. Patton
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. Lou Holtz
Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up. Bill Walton
Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children. Cyril Connolly
[Computer] programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers. Robert J. Marks II
Yes, to seek power that's vain and never granted and for it to suffer hardship and endless pain: this is to heave and strain to push uphill a boulder, that still from the very top rolls back and bounds and bounces down to the bare, broad field. Lucretius