Sports Struggle Quotes

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

Tottenham is not a club that always wins, but we are trying to create something. It's not easy to fight against European monsters, but it is a motivation.

The 2008 season was very long and extremely hard - probably the toughest of my career.

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

I lost confidence, and since then, I can't find my rhythm. I am training phenomenally and will continue trying.

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

I'm terrible at basketball. I have really small hands, and I can't control the ball.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

I sucked. It was my first time picking up a basketball. I watched it on TV, but I never knew what to really do with it. I mean, I needed help with everything.

You know when you've had a bad game.

There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'

There was a time when I thought, 'God, this whole football thing might not work out for me.'

When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click.

It's always frustrated me when I've seen other players able to smack balls over the bowler's head and stuff like that. I can't, though. When I've tried I've let myself down.

The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

Sometimes people take struggling on the court to an extreme level.

My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, and I had some times were I really did not get the opportunity. After Rick Pitino gave up on me my first year, people were like, 'He can't play.' So I had to get over that hump.

Hitting is hard, and even when you work to improve, you can still struggle.