Quotes About Struggle

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

I will tell my children that Mr. Trump fought for the little guy, for the mom and pop in Erie County who lost all hope. While Mr. Trump was far from perfect, he stood by people of faith who love America.

I've had doors slammed in my face, I've been shouted at in my face in meetings when I've stood up for myself.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Black history won't stop no bullets.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I get a pit in my stomach every time I think of that last attempt to make 155 for the Anthony Pettis fight. I just get this nasty feeling in my stomach, because no exaggeration, that was one of the scariest moments of my life. I remember that I couldn't stop my body from shaking.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

I can't stop biting off more than I can chew.

The Olympics are different, I'll admit that now and stop lying to myself.

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.

I never stopped and worked so hard to get the fame and money I deserved.

I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

When I retired, I stopped playing because of my body, so much pain and injuries.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

I lost in the amateurs, losing a controversial fight that stopped me going to an Olympic Games - and it's not a nice feeling.