The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.
What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
Life is a rollercoaster, and the lower you are, the higher you'll go.
Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low
My life has been one gigantic comic book, and on the other hand, it's been one gigantic book of laurels and amazing accomplishments, and on the other hand, it's been a book full of horror stories. It's a big book.
I've had the big ups and the big downs.
Sometimes there are ups and downs to deal with.
Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.
That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.
My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.
It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy.
There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.
It's good to go down because then you know you have to climb back to your old spot. And you can't be on top and not know that you can only go down.
Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.
There are so many high-highs and there are so many low-lows in this game.
When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.
I've had good times; I've had bad times.
