Quotes About Persistence

Every fight has its rough spots, and I'm always looking for improve every facet.

There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.

Life is a long marathon, and you have to be consistent. Anyone can sprint for 1500 meters, but you have pace yourself through your entire life.

As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

Building a business is a marathon, not a sprint. I don't believe it when people tell me they've been working 80-hour weeks for five years in a row. I just don't think that's possible.

People talk about world title offers, but boxing is not a sprint, it's a marathon.

When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.

Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

I think I had set-backs, but I still always had that belief that I was going to play for Tottenham Hotspur. Even when I went out on loan to clubs, it was always to come back and be a Spurs player.

I will take it step by step in trying to become number one for Spurs.

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Typically, I would say that I'm not defined by one loss and I'm not defined by one win. But I'd be lying if I told you I didn't harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden.

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

My first job was as a treetopper, and I was so damn good at it they called me 'Squirrel.' And then I joined the military and became a paratrooper. And later on in life I raced motorcycles and cars.

My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

I've managed to play most games every season for many seasons. That gives you confidence and stability.

I think the most important is to remain as stable and consistent as possible in terms of emotions, because when you're working, if you work well, you're always rewarded at some point.

I want to have a stable professional career as possible, which is obviously hard to do.

Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.