Quotes About Persistence

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.

There wasn't a day when I felt like hockey was work. I still don't feel that way.

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

I'm not a seller. I'm a holder.

Myself and every Knockout in the company at the beginning worked so hard to build up a credible women's division in TNA so finally holding the title meant so much to me.

There are pictures of me holding a basketball before I could even walk or talk. I feel like it's something that I've been manifesting since I was a child. It's a dream come true.

I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish.

We love to make sure all the boxes are checked - that we aren't just prepared but over-prepared before we raise our hand. It's that discipline that I love most about women, but it's also what holds us women back the most because by the time we raise our hand, that opportunity is often gone.

I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

People watch 'The Social Network,' and what they hone in on is the wealth and the parties and the excitement, and they don't realize the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.

You have to continue to hone your craft.