Quotes About Hardship

Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.

You know, most of my friends are either dead or in jail. There were a lot of tragedies.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Venezuelans live on 3 dollars a month. That's a tragedy. That is impossible to survive under these conditions.

None of us are exempt from tragedy.

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.

I train like I never had nothing 'cause I ain't never had nothing.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

There was no roof where we trained, so it used to get very hot during the day and the mud used to feel very cold during the evening.

Boot camp sucks - SEAL training sucks - but you know what? That's what makes you good.

If you put a person in a training gym made out of entire gold, it doesn't guarantee that this person will become a champion. But if you put a person in the basement, then there is a high chance that he will get out of this basement as a champion.

We are farmers, nobody in the family has a government job and my family has been supporting me with difficulty. But it is a sort of relief now that I am able to support my family financially besides continuing with my training.

We had a very hard training during our childhood and I don't want to live it again.

I sacrificed a lot. I wasn't able to be with my mother and father for how many months and years and then of course, training was excruciating.

For me, it's all about training and fighting. I would rather do without the attention, but I know it comes with the territory.

What you don't realise when you get injured for a long period of time is that it's so hard to get back. You see the lads out on the training ground and you're in every day - 8 to 5 - and it's horrendous. So when you actually come back it's a proud moment.

Back in 2008, nobody wanted to listen to or play my music. They called it trance. There was no market for it, but I just kept going.

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

You might have read some stuff about me sometime in the last few years. Like when I was 15: Davies becomes second-youngest player to play in MLS. Or when I was 17: Davies makes record-breaking transfer to Bayern Munich. I guess it must have looked like I was always going to make it. But that's not how it was. Or at least that's not how it felt.

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life, and I had to start again, with just my children and my wife. I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today, cuz the flag still stands for freedom, and you can't take that away.

Nobody ever got their ass out of the ghetto by letting someone else step ahead of them in line. And no-one ever got rich and famous by laying back and hoping someone would notice who they are and what they do.