The road takes a toll one those that aren't prepared for it.

"Those who never face great challenges will never know the exhilaration of great accomplishment."-- George Patton

"It's is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; ...who spends himself in a worthy cause...."---Teddy Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic"