Quotes About Persistence

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

In Mexico, you need to be a bulldog to make a movie because everything is set up for you to go back home and get depressed and not do the movie.

In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.

One of my best friends got recruited to go to Miami, and another one went to South Florida. You're talking about two big schools in Florida, and I had to go all the way up to Buffalo. I was like, 'OK, I have to put in some more work.' That's just the way it has been ever since.

I just started the way most comics start, doing open mic shows around Sacramento and San Francisco, and eventually, I moved to L.A. After about four or five years in L.A., I got the call to join the 'The Daily Show.'

I can always improve in the ring; I can improve on the mic. I can consistently keep improving.

I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.

I want to be the Denzel of acting and the Michael Jackson of music.

Michael Jordan was going to do whatever was ever necessary, and certainly I can say without question, he was going to achieve and stop playing whenever he wanted to stop playing.

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

From Day 1 since I was in middle school, it's just to get better every day and not settle for anything, try to get better, try to improve, and try to stay hungry. That's not going to change.

I started playing this game in the backyard, I started playing this game in middle school and going to go practice without any fans, without any sounds.

Every day, I do training. Sometimes at midnight I train, sometimes 4:30 in the morning as well.

Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

I might not always be given the respect that I should have, but it's what fuels me.

If I'm going to do something, I might as well go for it.

My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.

I will not leave Milan until I have demonstrated my worth.

I started out as someone who could not run a mile straight. I called myself a 'run/walker.'

I think I could make a 1,000 mile race. But I would definitely have to take pre-race precautions to make sure I could make it that far.

You got to be able to work hard. And that's what I do. I work hard, because that's what's necessary. You have to go that extra mile.

Cameron called me a dinosaur you know? Well I'm the only dinosaur who can ride a bike 12 miles a day.

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.