Quotes About Persistence

Ivory Coast, even though I told them no at first, they still had the belief in me and still wanted me because they knew what I could do for the team.

Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

Big up Samuel L. Jackson, because here's a guy who has broken down doors.

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.

There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.

I have faced many, but the most annoying was James Milner. He follows you forward and follows you backwards. It's very difficult because he attacks you and defends you, and then attacks you and defends you again.

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.

Maybe I can become the next James Bond.

I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long.

I want to be playing into January for the rest of my career, God willing.

I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.

Just remember that when I went to New Japan, nobody knew who I was. And I've done okay.

When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.

I was going to go back to doing the indies more often and possibly working more of a full-time schedule in Japan. If I didn't get the chance to go to WWE, that would have been a bummer to me, but I was just going to continue to do the best I could and continue my legacy.

People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

When Jeff and I were first starting out and trying to make a name for ourselves, we were doing indy shows, and would take whatever we could get just to have as much in-ring time as we could.

Sometimes you don't go straight from high school or college and get to the NBA from there. Sometimes you have to go when you're a little bit older and try that other route like Jeremy Lin. And he made it.

When you look at it and see, 'Oh,they made their first movie at 27,' you feel like a jerk saying it felt like forever, but at the time it did.

Obviously, when I was playing in the Championship, I always dreamed about playing for England, putting on the jersey.