Sports Hardship Quotes

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

Playing for the Washington Spirit, the 2013 season was one of the most difficult I have ever experienced.

Yeah, I blew up. But people don't see the other side of it. They don't talk about how I played on a broken foot. They don't know about the everyday grind.

Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.

People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

It's tough to win on the road, you know... at the end of the day, it's just tough to win on the road.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

Sometimes people fight with injuries and nobody knows, so it's important for the fans to see what we do to - for everything.

It's tough at first. You realize in the NBA, it's not easy. Each and every night, you're playing against that player that was the best high school player, that player that was the best player on his college team.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

It's one thing to be 100 percent and go out and play football feeling great. It's another thing when you're not feeling good. You're sick, or you got a nagging injury, and you gotta go out in the cold and go across the middle where a guy's coming full speed at you trying to kill you.

It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

Hitting's the hardest thing to do in sports.

You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

I would have loved to have had the start that Tom Brady did, won a couple of Super Bowls early, but I wasn't good enough at the time. I have to get better. You start to understand that all the talk and noise really don't matter. Every quarterback goes through the same thing. You have to keep getting better; your team will keep getting better—and you'll have a chance.

I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.

Let's say I have a new respect for guys who come off the bench every day. That's not easy to do.