“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.” LooksGuyGamesWinningRealizingDifferencesToughBaseballBiggerTwentiesLuckBuddyPitcherNineteen Author:Warren Spahn
“You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.” PeopleWayFeelsSaidHelpingEyeFallRealizingFourStreetsCarToughIllnessCornersMy WayHelp MeSlipsTough TimesSlipperyKnocked Down Author:Lou Gehrig
“Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.” PeopleKnowsWorldRealizingToughCancerAidsAround The WorldHivMalariaHiv AidsTuberculosis Author:Jenna Morasca
“I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.” ThinkingWorldHardShowsRealizingToughShow BusinessTough World Author:Carmen Rasmusen
“After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.” ShowsActorsRealizingHairToughOver YouBlondeBlonde HairGravitas Author:Jack Coleman
“I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.” RealizingTeamToughSight Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.” WantPlayJobsRealizingWalkingToughWalking Away Author:Octavia Spencer
“It's tough to make music and make it your own, and not have somebody call it something you don't agree with but can't control. Sometimes the press doesn't realize how much power they have and how they can shape somebody's life. I think there's a lot of people just trying to make music and get their art out there, and their heads get f**ked by the press calling them this or calling them that.” PeopleThinkingTryingArtSometimesRealizingCallingShapesToughAgreePressesKeds Author:Jim James
“It's amazing to see there aren't boundaries around gender. My menswear business has changed over the years as far as what men are daring to wear. And women, too. Men wanted to look tough, but now they realize you don't have to look like your granddad or dad. You can show a more feminine side.” MenRealizingChangedLike YouDadToughGenderBoundariesFeminineDaring Author:Olivier Rousteing
“What it means to be a man is to take on all the emotional pain and work through what you got to work through with the people you love while at the same time getting your business done. And it's tough. I think that most children when they grow up they kind of realize that the things they didn't like about their parents or didn't understand about them they get now and that you know every year you get more responsibilities. You get more overhead. You get more things you got to take care off.” PeopleThinkingMenKindMeanChildrenDoneCarePainParentRealizingResponsibilityGrowing UpEmotionalToughTake CareEmotional Pain Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.” LittlesI CanSometimesKidsMotherRealizingSonLoversDaughterToughBoundariesPushingMy DaughterMy SonPushing Boundaries Author:Jennifer Lopez
“It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected. Finally, you just do it because you happen to like it.” ThinkingWritingWellsReasonDreamHappensCareLastsRealizingTypeToughOkayBillsFavorsSensitiveRejectedJust Do ItNo One Cares Author:Natalie Goldberg
“I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.” WayGivingBigsTogetherLife IsFallRealizingBreakDarknessFailingFeetEmotionalEssentialsToughConnectionsRememberedTiesBleakCanyons Book:The Shape of Desire Source: The Shape of Desire
“I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.” RealizingToughTennisEver AfterStabbing Author:Monica Seles