Quotes About Struggle

Underachiever. Asthmatic. Excuse-maker and fistic faker. My opponents and some other haters have called me all of those things.

Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

In football you need opponents, competition because if you are alone with two or three clubs controlling everything you don't have any competition.

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.

You can lose to any team and then beat your top opponents and still not be in the top four.

I never choose my opponents.

A champion doesn't choose opponents or where the fight is going to be.

People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It's not personal or that I hate them: it's just that I know what I've had to sacrifice to face them.

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.

My game was all about strength and mauling opponents.

Every Bundesliga match is a new challenge, our opponents don't make it easy for us.

There's no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well.

The big games against big opponents, those are the best games to play in.

I haven't fought the easiest opponents. You can show up at your best and still not come out on top.

When you're a scholar at the academy of a professional club everything is quite nice and easy. Then suddenly you're up against opponents who are playing to put food on the table and you realise it means that much more.

If I always fought dominating my opponents without being hit back some times there would be no fun in it. That's the fun part, to have a war, there has to be a war.

Everybody said I was ducking opponents.

All my opponents are tough, but the one opponent who was most difficult for me was Pedro Rizzo.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.