Quotes About Struggle

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

'Law & Order' was amazing but so consuming, I couldn't get to the stage.

'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.

When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.

Running for president is a contact sport.

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

Politics, as the cliche goes, is a full contact sport. When you choose to play, you're going to get hurt.

There's so much drama in the lives of boxers. It's a contact sport and everyday they beat up people for a living.

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

I don't have the similar amount of success like my contemporaries have.

It always felt as though there was a wall between me and contemporary dance. I didn't know how to get into it.

I can't keep fighting and being the No. 1 contender for years.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

That contest between bat and ball, we don't want to lose that or get further away from that even contest.

All my life, everything has been a contest.

To me a fight is a fight, it's not a contest or a martial arts competition, it's a fight.

Had I been a contestant in 'Squid Game,' I would have died doing the dalgona.

Because of my style, I always make hard work of my contests.

In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.