Quotes About Struggle

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

You know, it cuts both ways... no one wants to lose a job, but everybody wants to work.

Weight cuts are not easy, are not nice, but it's part of our job so we shouldn't complain and just be on weight when you have to be.

All weight cuts are hard.

At times, it feels like I'm being cyber bullied.

Food became my coping mechanism and I've never been able to break that cycle.

Every election cycle there has been some manoeuvre against me, so at some level I am used to it.

We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works in cycles.

I'm a bit rubbish at everything apart from cycling.

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.

I didn't come from the sort of family where Daddy would provide - so I had to work.

I had to go through the same things that anyone's son went through. And you know, there aren't that many guys whose dads played who got to the league.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

We got such abuse on a daily basis. They were trying to harden us to the reality of the rock'n'roll world but how could we possibly know this wasn't the way it was supposed to be?

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.