Frank Gore Quotes

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

I've always believed in survival.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.