Quotes About Struggle

Josh Hutcherson

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Fame is a bit Nietzschean. For everything good, something bad happens to you, so you have to sort of be careful.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

Some people can act Hollywood and others don't. I just try to live my life as a normal, everyday man. At times, fame does get to you. But you must stay positive and remember two things: It's easier to be happy, and without all those fans, life wouldn't be as good as it is.

I'm familiar with adversity.

We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

Dad re-mortgaged the house and family and friends pitched in to help me get through that first year and after that, that was it. I won my first championship in cars that year - 1991.

A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.

I was on some bad teams, and I played bad as a young player, certainly, at times. And that all mounts. Yeah, that all mounts. The perception. Everything that goes into that. And so, yeah, I think to kind of get over the hump of that, to change perception, it can be difficult. It's a tall task. And it takes a long time.

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases - don't quite pan out.

For me at 16 and 17 years old, I wasn't even playing for the academy teams. I hardly played in the starting XI for the Under 19s.

We will fight against good teams.

Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

Losing is not fun. I know the fans don't like it, but they don't have to watch it every day. I have to watch it every day. I don't like watching bad teams.

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.