Quotes About Persistence

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I wish I could skate every single day.

Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps.

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

I have always believed that I am an amazing skater regardless of what the results say, and I think that determination and confidence has kept me in the game so long.

I have always believed that I've been an amazing skater regardless of what the results say.

Before I even wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a figure skater.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

'Thrasher' magazine's Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven't set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it's this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal.

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.

Right now it looks like skating is done for me. I'm ready to move on. But if baseball doesn't work out and I still have that itch for skating, I may be back.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.