Quotes About Struggle

Ever since I was a kid, I've been confident of coming out on top in a brawl, but the ring is a lot different from a bar. That's been my problem.

It's really hard to get a chance in Barbados.

It's difficult to adapt to Barcelona.

It's always difficult to face Barcelona. They always have top-quality players.

What Barcelona almost always do is play a good game, but we don't always win.

Neymar will not return to Barcelona. It was a very difficult situation for him there.

Yaya was much better than Sergio Busquets at Barcelona. But he was behind him in the pecking order and he found that hard to accept. I advised him to come to Manchester City while I was still there.

We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

Sometimes guys will come out and just barely squeak by to get a win and then wonder why they don't get a title shot. Who wants to see that?

The biggest barrier for women is the thought that they can't have it all.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

My first bars were about wrestling! That was basically all I knew back then.

It might look like it's easy, but no one really knows how hard it is. Especially when you go from a college bars routine that has four skills to elite with 10-12 or maybe even more. It's a big jump.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

I'm really bad at baseball.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

A lot of people bash me, but at the end of the day they don't know how much I have.

When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.