Drew Pomeranz Quotes

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to.

I don't get the credit I deserve but I continue to work hard and it fuels me.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

No gains without pains.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

No one knows how hard one works.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

This is hard. This is fun.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.