I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.