Uphill Quotes

This year, we had our slump in the beginning, and it`s better to have in the beginning than at the end. I think we`ve been going uphill since, and we`ve been showing people that we can be a force come tournament time.

Our concern is if the Santa Anas subside, this fire could turn into a topography-driven fire and race uphill into mountain communities. So we`re really concentrating a lot of fire suppression efforts on the northern perimeter of this Old Fire to keep it down,

I had a few options, but I just thought in my heart this is where I wanted to be, because the trend hadn`t been going uphill.

I don`t think we realized how far gone we were in people`s eyes. We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It`s been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record. It`s been us just slugging it out in the trenches and playing shows and proving to people every day that this band is legit and we`re not going away.

I don`t think we realized how far gone we were in people`s eyes, ... We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It`s been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record.

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It`s become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: `I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.` And, well, that`s an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, `Hey, let`s be grownups here. Let`s be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.`

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. `You forget,` said the Devil, with a chuckle, `that I have been evolving too.`

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can`t work out another route. You`ve just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

It`s been going downhill instead of uphill, ... We think it`s the location. If we knew the answer, I`d probably not be closing it. We tried everything we could.

I remember a lot of guys saying in the NBA everybody just sort of plays and then the last six or seven minutes you decide the game. Well, to tell you the truth, the team that shows up to play earliest normally wins. I totally disagree with that. So many games are lost in the first quarter. You get down 15 and it`s such an uphill battle.

(Riders can get so sideways at 14 that photographers and cameramen congregate there during winter testing to capture riders showing off for the cameras.) It`s one of the funnest corners, it just kinda sets itself up like speedway! ... It`s uphill, so you come up there and it automatically kicks out sideways. But you can always have fun on MotoGP bikes, doesn`t matter if you had all the traction in the world you could still break the thing loose!

Going uphill, you do have to compensate by running slower. Rather than checking your watch (on a hill), go for the same perceived effort as you ran on the flats. I find the best way to do this is to monitor your breathing. If you are breathing more heavily going up the hill, shorten your stride.

(The choice between social life and the uphill struggle for grades can be a hard one.) Balancing school and social life was the hardest for me in my second year, ... You don`t have the ready access to people that you had in the dorm; if you want the homework for last night, you now have to call someone rather than knock on their door.

It`s been the same story every game: We can`t get out of the first inning without giving up runs, and we get absolutely nothing in our half of the first. We`re trying to climb and scratch uphill the whole game.

This is very much an uphill struggle.