Quotes About Struggle

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.