Mickey Mantle Quotes

You are bound to undergo hardships, and it has been no different for me.

Every season is tough.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

Life is not mean to be easy.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

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

In the NFL, you're always facing an obstacle.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

People are always going to be tough on you.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

Struggle is the best teacher.

I'm familiar with adversity.

There's always adversity to overcome.

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.

I've been battle-tested inside the ring and outside the ring.

Defeat is tough.

The quick knockouts are nice, but going through a war now and again is a good experience to know I've done it.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.