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Daily Inspiration Quote by Lou Ferrigno

"You are going to have bad days and have good days"

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Lou Ferrigno’s line lands with the blunt honesty of someone whose body has been both his instrument and his battleground. “You are going to have bad days and have good days” isn’t poetry; it’s a locker-room truth delivered in plain clothes. That simplicity is the point. Ferrigno’s career has always lived at the intersection of spectacle and vulnerability: the outsized figure of The Incredible Hulk paired with a real-life story of profound hearing loss, relentless training, and the grind of proving himself in industries that reward image and punish weakness.

The intent is less inspiration-poster and more pacing strategy. “Going to” frames mood swings and setbacks as non-negotiable facts, not personal failures. The subtext is permission: you don’t need to dramatize a bad day into a bad life. You also don’t get to treat a good day as permanent proof you’ve finally “made it.” Ferrigno is sneaking in a discipline ethic beneath the softness of reassurance: if the days are inherently mixed, the job is to keep showing up anyway.

Context matters because Ferrigno comes from a culture of performance where consistency is fetishized and setbacks are edited out. By acknowledging variability, he punctures the myth of constant forward motion. It’s a modest sentence that smuggles in a sturdier worldview: resilience isn’t heroic; it’s repetitive. You keep moving because the calendar will flip whether you’re ready or not.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ferrigno, Lou. (2026, January 16). You are going to have bad days and have good days. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-are-going-to-have-bad-days-and-have-good-days-133266/

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Ferrigno, Lou. "You are going to have bad days and have good days." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-are-going-to-have-bad-days-and-have-good-days-133266/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"You are going to have bad days and have good days." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-are-going-to-have-bad-days-and-have-good-days-133266/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Lou Ferrigno

Lou Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951) is a Actor from USA.

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