Hal Sparks Quotes

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

There is no success without hardship.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I thrive on adversity.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

I've had to fight for everything.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

No cross no crown.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

There is no progress without struggle.