Sheri L. Dew Quotes

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

Hard times always lead to something great.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

You look at anything I've been a part of, it's when the laboring, the fatigue, when some of those things happen, that's what shows what you're going to be.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

Where I came from, my upbringing, the ups and downs it took to get my career started, when I made it, I played every game like it was my last game.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

I've seen my family work so hard and come up, and I've seen it all get taken away. I had to man up, and part of that was sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month, and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25 - $35 hotels. I just never panicked. I stayed focused and I never surrendered.

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.