Quotes About Struggle

Some guys didn't have fathers. Some guys grew up with great dads but the weight of fatherhood shifts onto their shoulders because they make millions now. Some guys are away from their kids or divorced. I'm letting them all know they aren't alone when it comes to fatherhood issues and to encourage them to make time for their kids.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.

I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.

I hoped 'Starlet' would finally open doors for me and lead to a much bigger budgeted movie, but that didn't happen.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

I just happened to be Latino, and like any artist, I was trying to forge a career. If I opened doors for others, that's great, but nobody starts out with those aspirations.

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.

I never doubted myself when I opened my first restaurant. You've got to give 100% of yourself until you know you've done it. But it was still a struggle.

There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.

I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.

We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

Any beginning is difficult, but when you're opening the newspaper every day, and it's all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Either I'm going out on my shield or you're going out on your shield. That's just what it is. I go out there and fight. I see an opening, I take it. You make a mistake, I take it.

The way I was raised, I didn't have a role model who was openly out.

Fame is always a bit crazy. You spend so long banging on the door trying to get in that when it suddenly opens, it's a very strange feeling.