Quotes About Struggle

So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.

It's pretty tough to play some good footy when your team is always losing.

The memory loss made me jittery at times.

Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.

After every loss, you want to trade everybody. I've felt that way several times.

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

In this sport, you're going to have your losses. That's just the name of the sport, nobody can stay on top forever.

I'm not in a position physically to take in five years of losses and downtime.

Sometimes losses come and it's hard.

You don't know how to take losses. It's tough.

When I was young I lost everything.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I was born with lots of deformities.

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

I think people, they love me because I play with my heart, I fight.

You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating career you can be in.

Mom, I love you. I love you, and our lives are gonna change. We don't have to struggle no more.

You can give up the best years of your life knowing that no matter what you do or how you do it, your step-child may not love you or want or need to have anything to do with you once they have left home.

If your community tells you that you're an abomination, that you're nothing and, because of who you are, you'll never amount to anything, why would you love yourself? Why would you save money? Why would you set goals?