Uphill Quotations

Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history.

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.

Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

We started out so poorly. You can't do that against a team like Dallas. We were climbing uphill the whole game.

Unless HBOS and Northern Rock step back, Barclays is facing a long uphill struggle in mortgages.

We knew this would be an uphill struggle to find corporate sponsors in so short a time frame.

We're still relatively small. But I think that's going to start to change because they're opening a new middle school next year in Geneva so we'll have two middle school programs. (Numbers) have always been an uphill battle for us, and then someone gets hurt and that makes it tough with a hole in the lineup.

We're still fighting an uphill battle in Tennessee, no about it.

We've got an uphill battle, but nobody's going to quit.

Whenever you appeal, it's a little bit of an uphill battle. But it's a real issue an appellate court will take some time to decide and an issue the district attorney would rather not have.

We'd get close, then we'd make a bad decision or not be able to finish off a defensive possession with a rebound and things like that. They'd go from up one to five; then we'd have to fight back. It was just an uphill battle all night.

We're playing good ball. The last two or three weeks have been a roller coaster. I'm hoping now we're on the uphill swing.

We're 0-3 in the Big Ten now. It's a bit of an uphill battle and we need to do anything and everything to get of the hole.

We have an uphill fight now. That was a winnable game on the road.

We were climbing uphill from the start. We didn't have it.

We were climbing uphill all night long. We thought if we could have had a normal quarter offensively and not be in the hole down by 20 points like we were in the first quarter, then we'd be OK.

'Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned.

One of the benefits of that car is that it's a much cheaper car to build for the car owner and it's built with much better chance of each car on the track being competitive. (Dodge) had an uphill battle to try to make (the Intrepid) perform and make it match its cousin on the street.

My goal at the beginning of the year was just to win every game we could, but more importantly to leave this program going to where it's going to be able to win championships. To where it's going to be built stronger and stronger. I think we accomplished that. Obviously, we didn't win every game, but I'll be leaving this program uphill and really leading to great things.

Phil's in an uphill battle, there's no question about it,

On the road, playing back to back, you need to keep it close. You don't want to be fighting that uphill battle in the fourth quarter. We just dug our hole too deep.

On the Democratic side, it's an uphill battle for anyone who runs. I don't think it's a slam dunk at all. Schwarzenegger has huge name identity, and that counts for a lot.

I was fighting an uphill battle. ... It was definitely time for a change, and I think voters saw that it was time for a change.

I wish him well. He's got an uphill struggle ahead of him.

If we come out of those three games on the right side of the ledger it will be a huge plus, and anything could happen then. But if we lose all three it will be an uphill battle we want to avoid that.

Getting relief on that basis, it is harder to imagine a steeper uphill battle than that.

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.

I don't underestimate the uphill battle that we face, but my hope is that a strong vote in the Senate will give us momentum in the House. The fact is that this money is from next year rather than new spending will also help.

For us to win, we needed Pitt to shoot poorly, and they shot extremely well. We just had too much of an uphill battle.

For those programs that did not start well, they face an uphill struggle. One week does not make a season but networks can't wait weeks to find audiences.

For Tiger, so much of it is 'How does this course prepare me to try to win my next major.' He's always working on his game to be able to do that. It's an uphill battle, but having Buick is a huge help. We're just going to keep working on it.

Hence, modernization in China remains a long and uphill journey that will entail many years of hard work,

There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill.

There is an uphill battle now for the Food and Drug Administration to re-establish itself as the real referee between the safety of the public and the profitability of the drug companies,

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

I think it's a cheap stock, but it's cheap for a reason. The company's core market has changed and it's attempting to change with it in order to keep up. But it's a real uphill battle.

I think it's an uphill battle all the way.

I thought we were going to get out of the first with just one run. Payton's home run was big. That really messed up the day for us. Then when we're down 7-0 that's really an uphill battle for us. We're struggling to score one or two runs.

It is getting harder and harder to come up here. I am running out of arguments. These windmill projects will promote the county, yet we are fighting an uphill battle here. We need to get the projects moved out of the finance committee.

I think they have their candidate. They're happy with Rudy Giuliani. Why should I fight an uphill battle at this point?

I think there's still a positive vibe. I hope that people realize it's an uphill battle for an expansion team, and that it's going to take a little time.

People are not going to switch from their trusted brand to a new and similar brand without good reason. This is why follow-on products constantly face an uphill battle when coming to market.

Other than last year, with Meijer and Coca-Cola, we didn't have a clue what we were doing and never even expected to be in the 500, and we've always managed to put a deal together. It has been an uphill battle ... but we're not giving up.

Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.

Statistically, we're fighting an uphill battle when we're on the negative turnover ratio and winning games, especially on the road, ... That's not normally the correlation. ... Right now, we're in a little bit of a dry spell.

It feels very good to be in charge of your own fate. I'm glad we put ourselves in this position so we are not fighting an uphill battle right now.

I think Oracle's fighting an uphill battle there.

I think I'm fighting an uphill battle. You've got to look at it from a coaching standpoint: 'Can we rely on this guy?' That's what they have to think. But I'm just going to go out and play. If I get hurt again, I get hurt again. But I've got two bionic knees now.

I think I'm fighting an uphill battle, ... You've got to look at it from a coaching standpoint: 'Can we rely on this guy?' That's what they have to think. But I'm just going to go out and play. If I get hurt again, I get hurt again. But I've got two bionic knees now.

I thought it would be a piece of cake. The city of Napa is so difficult to work with. They ask one thing after another. It's been an uphill battle.

Manufacturers should not count on automatic loyalty among first-time buyers, even if their parents are current customers. Not only is it an uphill battle to get their attention, but traditional endorsements from family members don't appear to play a large factor, especially from a retailer view.

We never quit fighting all night long. We were fighting an uphill battle form the very beginning. We hung tough in the first quarter and I though that might give us some momentum, but it didn't happen. We can blame it on a lot of things but it just didn't happen.

The 5-on-3 at the end of the first, they played it very well. They had the penalty killers working really hard. They didn't give us much. Credit to them, but there was a lot of hockey after that. When you spot that team three goals you're fighting an uphill battle.

That was a very intense match. Kevin only weights 190-something so every time he goes out there he's giving up 30, 40 pounds. It's an uphill battle for him every time he steps out there. He wrestled as hard as he could. He just came up a little short.

Merck is going to fight an uphill battle every time they step in the courtroom. They have a long legal harangue ahead of them.

Merck is going to fight an uphill battle every time they step in the courtroom.

You just got to start with a win. That way the snowball effect can start going uphill instead of downhill.

We were under the gun. Upper Perk is an unbelievably talented team. They have barely any weaknesses. We knew it was an uphill battle and I liked how our kids battled. It was a great experience for us.

We have to prove ourselves. We've never finished less than second in league in our history. That's an uphill battle from here. We'll see what we're made of.

We have some things to point to that we think are successful. ... That being said, we still believe that there's a double standard. We still believe it's an uphill battle, it's not a level playing field, and there is evidence of racial bias in the hiring cycle.

We had had the 20-3 season, and saw we can compete at a higher level. At that point, we knew we needed to get some tougher teams on schedule. You have to walk before you run, and we don't want to keep fighting an uphill battle. You have to be ready before you put the big dogs on the schedule.

We had a little trouble getting things going and getting a flow up the ice. We were off somehow. It's hard to explain, but like we were fighting an uphill battle.

We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage will actually hurt job creation and the very people it's supposed to help, the entry-level workers.

We were just battling uphill all night. We couldn't get it in gear tonight.

When you?re running uphill like that (it?s tough). When we got it down to four I called time-out because we were exhausted.

We played as hard as we can. Sometimes you just get beat. We've got an uphill battle now.

We played as hard as we can. à Sometimes you just get beat. We've got an uphill battle now.

We didn't play with a lot of energy in the first half. We were running uphill the entire game, and every time we came close we made a mistake.

We played well there last year and we were only a few minutes away from beating them. But they are a fantastic outfit and team and are setting the standards for everyone, so it's an uphill job, but one you look forward to. You love to play against the best and at the moment Chelsea certainly is that.

We've been working since the late '80s to get 49 widened. This will be an uphill battle.

We knew we had an uphill battle, but we just kept taking advantage of our open looks. I knocked a few (3s) down, and so did K.C. (Rivers) and Cliff.

We knew we had an uphill battle against a good Arlington team.

We knew walking into the gym we had a great challenge ahead of us. Anytime you get down early against a Division I team, you've got an uphill battle ahead of you.

We came close in 1997, but close meant people were protected, ... To try to argue it could get worse in the future and we need greater protection was an uphill battle.

We can't panic. It will be an uphill climb for us. We feel we're still in there. We get a win next week, go to 5-4 and we can get back in this.

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.

This year was an amazing effort by the uphill group. Road Conditions were slower with washboard sections, loose chunky rocks in the construction areas, as if 3,000 feet of elevation gain and 12 km of climbing wasn't enough.

To think about a new car owner, a driver, a new driver so to speak, all new, new, new, and have to make all the races early, things like that, it just is a huge uphill feat. I wish them all the luck, but it's going to be a tough one.

With all the special interests in Washington clamoring for handouts from a spendthrift Congress, the fight against big government is an uphill battle. Thanks to people like Sen. Chambliss, taxpayers have a fighting chance and will continue to score victories,

This will give us an indication on our district. Our district is going to be and uphill battle to climb.

Fighting against Internet piracy and infringement is a long-term mission and an uphill journey.

We were fighting an uphill battle all night.

We wanted to be .500 at worst at this point (of the season), and now we're three and five. That makes it an uphill battle. You make it tough on yourself when you score 10 runs in a game and don't win.

We've had an uphill struggle all weekend, so we're really excited we made the race,

This season is going to be a learning experience but we have the same goals that we have every year. We want to make the playoffs and the girls expect to do that. We are going to keep the expectations high but we have an uphill battle.

We've got a long way to go, let's be honest. We know we've got an uphill battle, but nobody's going to quit.

This was a win that we needed really bad. We're still working out way out of our little slump, but we're on the uphill climb out of that.

What really hurt us was that poor start to the third quarter. They made their shots while we missed ours and turned the ball over. It was just an uphill battle from that point on.

You have to position the ball underneath the holes, because the greens are really quick and really good. In order to take advantage of this course, you have to be able to putt aggressive and that means keeping the ball underneath the hole and having uphill putts where you can stay aggressive all the way throughout a round.

With respect to how long it's going to take us to get down the hill, we don't have a whole lot of experience driving this vehicle downhill -- we've been going uphill for more than a year now. We're going to have to take it carefully at first and learn as we go. I think the deciding factor is going to be how good the geology is. If we're finding geology that offers truly compelling targets (for study) as we found on the way up, then our pace is going to be a lot slower whereas if it's a lot of loose sand and that sort of thing we'll be able to move through it a lot more briskly and head to the good stuff off in the distance.

You have to have a desire to want to play and continue to battle. Sometimes, with an uphill battle like this one, you have passengers. It's hard because it's a tough game with a lot of adversity. Some guys just weren't up to the challenge.

We just took too many strikes and swung at too many balls. Give Keegan credit. Once, they got three runs, I knew it would be an uphill battle.

We were out of synch. Everything that we had to do (Tuesday) was always an uphill battle. (The Lady Bulldogs) were just plugging away and we could never a flow. We could never get things rolling against them.

We got some good looks and hit open shots in the first quarter. ... We jumped to a pretty good lead. Playing on the road and in a hard gym, (South Tahoe) got off to a pretty sluggish start. That made (the game) an uphill fight for them.