Quotes About Challenges

Hollywood has a lot of barriers set up for everyone. If you can live with it, and you can break through, then you're going to do OK.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

I've played a lot of basketball during my life - and it's not always been good.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

I got called a boy all the time. Going into the bathroom, I still get the shocked look, like, 'Are you supposed to be in here?' But I'm so used to it now, I'm just like, 'I'm a girl, I'm in the right bathroom.'

I used to work at Bloomingdale's when I was transitioning, and they didn't want me using the same bathroom as the female employees or what have you, so it was a struggle.

My house always had at least 14 people in it. And one bathroom. So I didn't really want to be home.

Using the bathroom in space is hard, and you've got to be very - what was the word? - very kind to one another.

Maybe for a guy like Zverev or Federer, you could say it's open a bit. For a guy like me, every match is tough, and I'm going to have to battle it out.

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

I have to battle so many issues, and the biggest is racism.

I focus on playing football, and there are many battles you have to think about and which must be won.

You never know what battles people fight.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.

Battles in the Legislature can be tough.

I had many fights in Pride, many battles there.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

It's hard to be a team when you're battling yourselves.

I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.