Quotes About Persistence

That's why I kept wrestling - I'm too dumb to realize I can't win, so I keep wrestling until I ultimately succeed. I'm pretty dang stubborn.

I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.

I've always been a stubborn guy and you've got to beat me up before I'll start doing something.

I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

My stubbornness of wanting this fighting career has saved me.

I stuck with a mustache because... do you know Magnum P.I.?

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I do get cast in the same role a lot, but the truth is, I just want longevity. The thing is, I'd rather be stuck in a stereotype than be nowhere. The whole typecasting thing started because of 'Reservoir Dogs.' And I did a bunch of other films like 'Wyatt Earp' and 'Free Willy,' but no one seems to remember those.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.

At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.

Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.

Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.