Quotes About Struggle

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

For me, it's difficult to even walk around in cotton sarees; imagine doing scenes in them!

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.

I never felt bright enough. I never felt confident. I felt that kid coming out of the council estate, like I was never good enough.

I went to a counselor for years, and it wasn't the kind of counseling to help you - it was the 'Let's make you straight' type - but counsellors can help.

I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.

If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.

Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

I have seen countless colleagues struggle to come to terms with retirement. I learned a lot from Richard Dunwoody when he was riding, and I completely understand why he took off and undertook what most people consider mad challenges.

It's not fun to watch your team go out, and guys that you've worked so hard with, and the countless hours you've put in on your own time to go and showcase all your hard work, and then have it taken from you and then see your boys playing without you.

Back when I first started in country music, you did it because you loved it, because it definitely wasn't where the big money was.

You have to win every battle. Every small metre counts, and you have to win your duels. Then you will see you will win the game.