Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.
What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.
I never went through an easy fight. Every fight has been hard fought.
Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
I've always been a fighter in my life.
I am a fighter and it's what I do, what I live for.
I'm a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter, and it's what I love to do.
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.
You had to fight every inch of the way, that's what made us trailblazers.
You have to fight for each point.
Sometimes you've got to tip your cap when they're painting stuff on the corner. But you can't give up, got to keep battling and make some adjustments.
Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.
Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster.
