Quotes About Struggle

It's hard to be a team when you're battling yourselves.

You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

I guess I'm crazy. If everything was easy-peasy and green lights all the time, it'd be kind of boring.

It's really tough, it's a very kind of cutthroat industry and you have to be prepared that you're not going to get the parts that you want.

You have to be prepared to fight and finish your own battles.

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

When I first had my legs amputated, it was hard for me to be positive and feel pretty. Many people don't know that someone with a disability can be strong and beautiful and successful as an athlete.

It's not easy to always be yourself.

You can't believe how hard it is to be yourself.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

Long Beach is fast. Every day, you hear something bad; somebody gets hurt.

On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times.

It just became too much to bear... the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself.

Sometimes it's more than you can bear to be on the road and take care of all that other stuff.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

I understand why my mum and my wife can't bear to watch me fight. There's a lot of blood, a lot of pain.

There's people that have labored and labored and it takes them a long time before they get that break and then they get it. Then sometimes, I've seen guys with a lot of talent never get it. It's the nature of the beast.

You can get beat any day.

There was a time when I was beat down, and I lost my way.