Scuffling Quotes

(About his roles as Tony Baretta and Father Noah Hardstep in "Baretta" (1975) and "Hell Town" (1985), respectively): There are more similarities than differences. They both care a lot about people and they both get impatient with the system if the system seems to be keeping them from doing their jobs. And they both ain`t afraid to do a little scuffling to get the job done.

((from an interview for the book "Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music") . . . if I had it to do over again, there is one thing I would change. I would make it (success) happen maybe ten years sooner. Ten years is a good stretch of scuffling. But I scuffled for 17 years before it happened and 17 is a bit much.

You don`t always want to wait until the ninth inning to win games, but we haven`t had that. That propels us, to know we can win at any time. You don`t want to go into the postseason scuffling.