Quotes About Struggle

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

Anytime you struggle, people are always going to say something.

One of the reasons I didn't make it in the NBA - I played 3 1/2 years - and one of the reasons I was in Europe for 20 years was because I lost my confidence. That comes from coaches that are emphasizing the mistakes, taking you out anytime you make one.

I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

War tore my family apart.

I lived in my car in Hollywood for a year, and then it got towed. My... apartment got towed. How... does that happen?

The night I won at the Apollo, I was only doing it for the $10.

Here I am getting $50,000 for personal appearances. Everyone wants a piece of me. But my kids think no one could possibly think Dad is cool.

I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.

When you come from where I come from, you're trying to get approval for something - you don't know what.

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

I'm trying to be a voice for the North African Arab community. We've got to continue to fight for our place in the industry.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

When I got into the NBA, the thing of it was, if you won, you got a new arena. But if you lost, you had to work to get the arena.

My father believed in armed struggle.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

I always say the dents in a man's armor show he's battle-tested.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.

I knew some of the army quite well.

My dad was a supplier to the army and was not a very well-off person.