Quotes About Hardship

Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face... A good hard day's work.

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

If all you have is coal, that's the only thing that we have. Don't hate the coal miner for trying to get the only decent job that we have in West Virginia that can allow them to feed their family.

The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.

I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Practices were tough.

It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

Anybody that comes in, a new person is supposed to spend six months downstairs in the basement doing prep work. I didn't. I got on the line right away.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

It's the training that's the hardest. It's the preparation. The months and months of preparation that nobody really sees, that's the hardest part.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

Of course I have to work harder because I have my limitations, and I have to prepare better and in a different way my body and mental strength, but that is part of my life.

Too many hardworking people are getting crushed by the rising cost of premiums, copays, and prescription drugs.

During the years of my presidency, I lived a tough and difficult life.

When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

I always had to have a day job, working on other people's ranches or construction or whatever. I was making a little bit of money rodeoing, but between the both of them it wasn't much of a living.

I've never had it easy in boxing, from day one, never. I've never asked for an easy run.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

I put myself in debt to get to the NBA.

Like most Africans, I had to work much harder and show much deeper belief than others.