Quotes About Struggle

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

I've trained side-by-side with all these boxers and they make more money than me.

Boxing is a really difficult sport! So I don't want to tell you I wouldn't try it, but I guess everybody that does know about it, my friends, they tell me how difficult it is, and I'm like, 'Eh.'

Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.

Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.

Whose mother wants to see her son fight? It's very hard for her - but boxing is in my blood.

People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.

I was a bad kid. I was a bad and good kid in and out of the boxing gym.

Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.

One of the reasons boxing is one of the greatest things to happen to my life is because it made me human again.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.

I had actual relationships - I got shamed for getting another boyfriend, and I was just trying to find love.

I can never find the right bras.

It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.

After 'Ishq Brandy,' I was either not getting good scripts or not good characters.

I always felt like the UFC brass kind of had it out for me.

I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

You want to try to put on a brave face, but I think I'm learning that that's not the case.

I was almost 8 when my mother bravely brought her children to this country so we could have a chance at a better life.