“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place. And I don’t care how tough you are. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it”
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done”
“Now if you know what you are worth, go out and get what you are worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers, saying you ain’t where you want to be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that, and that ain’t you. You’re better than that”
–Rocky Balboa
I was given this book by my in-laws after my last round of chemotherapy. It’s a great read. It’s full of great stories and photographs of people fulfilling their dream of following in Rocky Balboa’s footsteps (literally — by running up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum), which, for each and every one of them, commemorates some unique goal, achievement, or special moment. Pick one up, or get one for a friend.
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AC
