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Motivation Quote by Joaquin Andujar

"You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die"

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Spoken like someone who spent a career learning which discomforts matter and which ones are just noise. Joaquin Andujar’s line takes the petty tyrants of daily life - the weather, the ambient irritations we treat like emergencies - and demotes them to background static. Cold and heat are framed as conditions, not crises. You endure them. You adjust. The only thing that earns the right to “worry” is illness, because it’s the one variable that can’t be negotiated with hustle, toughness, or a good attitude.

That’s the athlete’s worldview stripped to its bones: control what you can, don’t romanticize suffering, and keep your attention trained on the few stakes that are real. The bluntness is the point. He doesn’t dress it up with inspiration-speak; he uses a hard if/then logic that sounds like clubhouse talk, the kind of fatalistic pragmatism that shows up when a sport is also a job and bodies are the payroll. In that context, health isn’t “wellness,” it’s eligibility. It’s the difference between being on the field and being gone.

The subtext is almost comic in its severity: worry is a luxury for people who haven’t been forced to prioritize. Andujar isn’t denying discomfort; he’s mocking the way we inflate it. The kicker - “then if you don’t get well, you die” - lands like a deadpan punchline that refuses sentimentality. It’s morbid, sure, but also clarifying: most of what we call stress is just weather.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Andujar, Joaquin. (2026, January 15). You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-cant-worry-if-its-cold-you-cant-worry-if-its-171112/

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Andujar, Joaquin. "You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-cant-worry-if-its-cold-you-cant-worry-if-its-171112/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-cant-worry-if-its-cold-you-cant-worry-if-its-171112/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Joaquin Andujar (December 21, 1952 - September 8, 2015) was a Athlete from Dominican Republic.

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