Quotes About Persistence

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

I wrestle every opportunity with gusto.

I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.

I know I can wrestle a lot longer than I can fight.

Back at the beginning of my career, I had to make all these sacrifices - sleeping in a car on nights where I'd wrestle in front of 20,000 people - because I wasn't making any money.

If I want a kid to be good at a front headlock - which, if you're gonna wrestle at a high level, you need a good front headlock - I'm gonna put him in there 50 times in that practice.

I used to travel for 12 hours to learn to wrestle when I was 15.

I'm just glad when I was fighting for us to wrestle I would always have people tell me, 'Gail, women's wrestling is for the bathroom breaks, you know they really don't want to see it.' I would get discouraged a little bit but I was very adamant, so I'm glad that we girls proved them wrong.

I want to continue to wrestle nonstop whether I have the title or not, and I'm not afraid of whoever it is that wants to step up.

When you wrestle on television, you're always fighting for time and the enemy is you're never getting enough of it, you're looking, trying to get more.

I'm able to get out there and wrestle for longer periods of time. It was like a whole new thing I hadn't done really in years.

Any place is really tough to wrestle until you get over. Once you get over, it doesn't matter if you're on television or an armory, it all becomes pretty easy.

The fact I've carved out a niche in the business and had an almost 30-year career and done well without competing at a WrestleMania is something I'm proud of. To be in a business that's dominated by one guy and be able to do well without having to walk on that stage is great.

It's got to be repetition of me over and over again, constantly delivering the goods every time I'm out there. And that's how I'm going to get to where I need to be, which is in an important match at WrestleMania every year.

When it comes to WrestleMania, obviously you'll take whatever opportunity is put in front of you.

After four years of experience - and especially after the match with Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 27 for the U.S. title that ended up being a dark match - you've got to realize that patience is a huge key in this game.

Everybody works their whole careers for a WrestleMania moment.

It was always a dream for me to do my debut match at WrestleMania, and people would laugh at me. People would laugh at me all the time for my crazy ideas.

I'm a wrestler with nine toes. I'm a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, 'You never quit. You keep coming back.'

I wanted to be a wrestler since before I can remember.

There wasn't one defining moment that I said, 'I wanna be a wrestler.' It was just something that was always inside me.

I am a real Iranian, and I'm in entertainment but still I was a 100 per-cent wrestler.

I wasn't great at a lot of stuff, but I was good at not worrying about being a wrestler.

When you become a wrestler at 35 and your career takes off at 40, nobody believes in you. But there are some people out there who watch how I did it, and I did it through intense work ethic.