Quotes About Struggle

I know that one day I won't be good enough to play baseball anymore. But as long as I have an opportunity to, I want to keep fighting.

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

It's one of those things where it's not something you want to do; nobody wants to retire from basketball. You want to play basketball forever. Retirement is admitting to yourself and everybody else that, 'I can't do this job anymore.' For me, that's not a celebration.

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.

My long-term aim has always been to play football at the highest level I possibly could for a big club. When that is in your mind, you don't give up; you constantly fight and battle to make that happen.

I wanted to play football and wear the Indian jersey, but there was no women's football team.

I just wanted to play football and didn't get the chance in Germany in my second season there.

I went to Madrid to play football but I couldn't because I was never left in peace.

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

People think I can really play golf, but it's actually been almost an albatross for me. I really struggle not only to break 80, but sometimes to break 90.

I play golf but very badly.

I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's.

I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.

I have just been a bit inconsistent when I have played. That happens in football, especially when you have been out for a long period.

Losing the Ashes was intense and emotional. My personal lack of results and contribution through that series played havoc in my mind.

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

I have always been confident in my abilities, always had my faith in God, always expressed myself, but when you are a young player, sometimes you get misunderstood.

I still don't really feel like a bass player.