James Carville Quotes

Nothing comes easily for me.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

I've had many setbacks.

I know what it's like to be in a difficult situation, where the results do not come in.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

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

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

I just wanted to win on the road, honestly. I don't remember the road ever being this tough.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

In a day when you don't come across any problems — you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.

I don't ever remember overcoming adversities.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.

Sometimes it's hard. I'm not going to lie. It's tough. You feel like you're killing yourself, and you're giving it all you've got, and you're just not seeing it.