Quotes About Persistence

There's no such thing as 'next time we'll do it better.' Do it better this time.

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

Things move on quickly in football. You win the FA Cup: 'So?' We won the league the next year: 'So what? Go out and win it again.'

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

I feel very lucky that I've been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It's so hard to get into.

I never wanted to do anything else, really. I left home at an early age trying to find my voice, my niche in music.

Nick Diaz brings it every single time and I bring it every single time.

Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.

I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard.

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

There were nights I was at home crying, thinking I'd never make it. I'd get up the next day and go to the audition, do my best, and try my hardest.

There's no off nights. When you think it's an off night, it's not.

You have to keep shooting, even on tough shooting nights. You have to believe the next shot is going in.

Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.

You just go out there and try to do your best. Some days are great. Other nights, it's maybe not your day. It's the other guy's day.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.