Quotes About Persistence

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

I work hard all my life and now I show the people how I come from oldest country in the world to live the America dream.

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.

In the Olympics, you only get one opportunity to bring it all together. If you don't, better luck in four years.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

I just have to stop biting my nails. I've been on and off that bandwagon so many times. I feel like it's going to be a lifelong struggle.

I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.

For me to become a professional footballer, determination was key, on and off the pitch.

Every champion was once a challenger.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

You can't keep going back to Detroit because you're big in Detroit. You can go maybe once a year and sell it out because everybody loves you and looks forward to seeing you again. You can't go back twice in the same year.

Once you achieve something you just want to move on and achieve something else and keep achieving, like Alexander the Great - he captured one country and then he just kept doing it.

Rome was not built in one day.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I always assume that one day someone will come and try to do better so you always have to go beyond your limits.