Quotes About Struggle

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

I feel that in spite of having a big launch with 'RNBDJ' and the film doing well for me in terms of getting appreciation, I don't think it made me the next big thing.

Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.

First time I had my defeat, it was very hard to come to terms with.

'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.

I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

I smoke, isn't that terrible?

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.

I've always been terrible at land navigation.

Temptation to behave is terrible.