The decision requires the adjustment of men’s minds and actions to the unfamiliar and unpleasant.
There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things... We find little joy in that, but there are no painful sensations. We have lived through tougher times.
We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.
I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.
