Quotes About Struggle

It's hard to compare the faith of Gareth Southgate and Roy Hodgson and my lack of chances at Chelsea because it's such a big club.

There's an incredible amount of people that you can compare yourself with and be like, why am I not doing as well as that person? It's really hard.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Nothing compares to when you are in coma and you hear voices and think you are dying. Then you come out of the coma and hear more voices saying you will not walk, not play sports, not be normal. And all the time your mind is fighting back saying, you will be strong, you will fight.

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Even though I didn't realize that I was about to launch into a two-year struggle, a deep and compelling sense told me that I had to walk the path I'd chosen - or rather, the path that seemed to have chosen me.

Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

Anywhere you go, you're gonna have to compete. In life, you're gonna go get a job. You're gonna have to compete with the next person.

If you want to compete, you have to take out the big boys.

We compete so hard and that changes the whole ballgame.

I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.

I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.

You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.

It's not easy when you lose Flamini, Hleb, Senderos, Gilberto, and Lehmann. When you lose all these players - and Flamini, for me, was the best player last year - it's really difficult to compete against Chelsea, Man United, or Liverpool.

I didn't enjoy fighting. All I cared about was trying to beat the scale. Once that got to a point where I couldn't compete with the scale anymore, I was like, 'I'm done.'

I love to compete - don't get me wrong.

I'm here to compete and to keep beating people up.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

I love competing. I mean, if you ask anybody around me, my coaches, they know I love competing. I hate losing.