Quotes About Struggle

I couldn't shoot and I couldn't score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

I really wasn't a good defensive player at all.

Every year they are making the game harder and harder for a defensive player to play.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

I find it hard to define myself.

Every day, we read about athletes who let their sport define them.

I was 15 when I did Rufio and now I've been Rufio for more of my life than I haven't been. Wrestling with that is always interesting because you don't want to be fully defined by it, but at the same time it's you, and you don't want to be ashamed of you either.

I've thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn't be where I am today without my dyslexia.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.

I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.

Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

I was born with legs, but they were so deformed.

We at the Women's March tried intersectionality, and we were the group that said we're going to do it right, and we're going to defy our women-of-color elders who told us, 'We did this with the white woman before, and it doesn't work.'

No one can live under degradation.

To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

My dad had two college degrees but came here and was boxing pizzas. He was willing to pay his dues for the opportunity to live here and breathe this air.