Carlos Ruiz Quotes

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

Baseball is just my job.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.