Quotes About Struggle

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.

In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

The first time I ever beat my brother was the end of my junior year. At the end of the match, he tried to throw me, and I took him to his back and pinned him. Instead of simply losing, he bit me in the chest.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.

I done seen a lot of fights and mosh pits.

My dad was down the pit and my mother worked in a newsagent.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.

I felt when I was hitting guys or going for a takedown at 185, sometimes it was like hitting a wall.

After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it taught me that faith is enough, but here's three more things left just in case. There's always things left to do to be closer to God.

Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's there.

I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.