Quotes About Struggle

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Our illness is often our healing.

Life is never free of contradictions

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.