Quotes About Persistence

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.

It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

It never really mattered to me trying to get somewhere fast because if you get somewhere fast, you probably won't stay there too long.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

If my journey encourages and inspires people to never give up trying to do what they really want to do, I will be truly satisfied.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

It's a process of trying to be great. You play this game long enough, you're going to have these bumps in the road and you have to keep fighting.

All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.

I had no trainers to play, so I went barefoot. Everyone else had trainers. I also remember running 9 km. to training one day with ripped trainers. The sock kept coming out of the shoe, so I'd have to stop and tuck it in.

The Championship is relentless sometimes with the Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.