Quotes About Persistence

I guess you can say that my unwillingness to accept failure is what drives my success.

Personally, I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.

I knew from the first time I put my hand on the barre at the age of eight that dancing was all I wanted to do and that it was what I was going to do, and nothing was going to stop me. That has always been the driving force in my life. It is who I am.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

I shall act until I drop. I just want to keep doing it and making it fun.

When you drop the ball, it's not about, 'Oh, he can't catch,' or none of that. If you put time into something, of course you can catch. I wouldn't have got drafted if I couldn't.

You can't have two or three games where you let your level drop.

You cannot play at your best and beat a top team one day and drop your level the next day.

That's what my life has been all about: Every time I get dropped, I come back and win.

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

That constant need to do better and better is what drove me to start more and more companies - but it wasn't enough.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

Some might say I didn't pay enough of my dues, and I think I've paid my dues.

I paid my dues; I certainly did.

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

Be durable. Play every game. That's a lot that goes into that.

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

I have always been confident. I know my own mind, what I'm able to do. I will never sit down and dwell.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

You've got to have the same attitude each day. You've got to show up to work.

It's a long season so you've got to try and focus on each day.