Quotes About Persistence

My dream was always to play soccer.

Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.

I wanted to be a soccer player.

When I was younger, soccer was my life. I always wanted to play.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

There was never a game plan to be on social media. Like most things in life, if you work consistently and at your pace, then things fall into place.

I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.

As an actor you pull your socks up and look for the next job.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

I don't shy away from softball being my background.

The beauty of a game like softball is you're failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you're still failing seven out of 10 times. But you're still good.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

The only regret I can have is that Inter sold a player that is now completely recovered. I said many times that I wouldn't have left Inter without showing who I was. But then they sold me.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.

In our early days, being recognized on any list of great companies was hard to imagine. There were times when we sold the office furniture to make payroll.