I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
When are we defending something that isn't worth defending anymore?
John Moore Cornwell
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
When you dig in, two big titans clashing, what good is that? It's not good for either of us; it's not good for the industry.
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
I've fought the guys that didn't do anything for me, didn't move the needle a bit, people weren't excited for it, I was having trouble getting excited for it. I've fought those guys because that's what was given to me.