Grantland Rice Quotes

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

The only way round is through.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Struggle is part of the journey.

I'm still swimming.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Nothing comes easily for me.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

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

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.