Quotes About Challenges

Coming off all my wins I had a lot of criticism.

But yeah, a lot of people compare me to Magic. The physical appearance, the tall point guard, the ability to pass the ball. But comparisons are one thing, it's up to me to go out and play my game, get those wins, those championships, that's the only way those comparisons can get closer, but he's a legend.

Wins in this league are precious.

If you can get through losses, you can get through wins.

Everybody goes through ups and downs and wins and losses, bumps in the road, and I don't let anything like that slow me down.

You are going to run into some bad stretches - that's just part of the season - but while we're playing well and feeling good, we have to take advantage and get as many wins as we can.

The epic failures make up the journey along the way to getting the wins.

'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.

It's not nice getting up at 6 am, when it's pitch black and you have to get in a van with 10 other lads, to go and work in a muddy building site in the winter, and not get home until 5.30 or 6.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

When I was at the South Pole, the coldest it got - and I didn't go outside - was minus 111. That was during the winter, so it's dark 24 hours a day, and for some of our jobs, we are required to go outside, even in weather like that.

The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.

It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

I remember the terrible winter in 1963, clearing the snow off the forecourt at Upton Park with the rest of the players so we could train. Job done, we'd play on it for two hours in silly little plimsolls, sliding everywhere.

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.

My only challenges for winter are jackets because I have big arms.

You know it's a real winter when Bostonians are telling you that they've never experienced anything like it.

The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.