Quotes About Challenge

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

Like many Kentuckians, I've seen too many families torn apart by drug abuse. The attorney general should be the leading voice in confronting this challenge, and I believe that I am the right candidate for the job.

When I was in college, the bell tolled for us. Just as my grandmother, the woman who had cared for me all my life, started needing me to care for her, we were told our home was being torn down, and we would need to find another place to live.

I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.

There is little you can do to stop a tornado, a hurricane, or a cancer diagnosis from changing your life in an instant.

When I first got to Toronto, we were last in defense, 20-something in offense, we were the laughing stock in the Eastern Conference.

Shopping for guys in Toronto is a really tough thing because there's not a huge market for it.

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

Chess is mental torture.

Honestly, you could beat me, torture me - just don't bore me.

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

When you play in smaller places with a smaller symphony, sometimes there's a difference in quality. Sometimes it's murderous. Sometimes it's real torture. Other times, you get a wonderful surprise. But there's never a dull moment.

I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.

There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.