Quotes About Persistence

No matter how many people want me to crawl in a hole and die forever, I'm not going to do that.

A lot of people get to the NBA, but how many people stay in the NBA?

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

I can't tell you how many times I had opportunities to do other things and went and golfed because I wanted to be the best.

I've definitely learned that if you really want something, just go for it, no matter how much it scares you.

Unfortunately, no matter how much time you get, you can always use more.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

It wasn't until I did 'Hugo' where I sort of started to think that this could be something that I do for a long time - not necessarily the rest of my life, but we'll see.

I want to do good work. The first failure affected me. That is why I did 'Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum.'

The marathon can humble you.

I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

I've been trying to be a singer ever since I was 2 years old and I'm a whole 27 years old now so it's like, things can happen or they can't. It's a humbling experience every year, every day.

That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.

I'm trying to make things better, and you have people outside who are constantly trying to make things terrible all the time. Why? Because humiliation sells.

In all pomposity and humility, I just wanted to show what I could do as an actor, and I jumped when 'Lootera' came my way.

I've been playing golf for a little while and I can't get over the 85 hump. It doesn't matter how good or bad I shoot on one side, I'm going to end up around 85.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.