Quotes About Persistence

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

We cannot change every week our idea and philosophy as a club if you win two games or you don't win two games.

All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

I believe in finishing what I start; not being able to do that makes me feel weak.

I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me!

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

I moved here in 1997. It's 20 years later, and I finally feel like I'm in this business. I feel like I could call my manager if I wanted to set up a meeting to pitch something and actually get it done, based on my history and the work I've done. I can't say that I felt that way five years ago.

I'm going to continue to work, to continue to play to the best of my ability, whether I'm on the pitch for one, two, or five minutes, I'm going to give it my all, my maximum, to contribute significantly.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

When either major stories break or something just really touches me, I initiate and pitch, then follow through. I will literally march across the newsroom and bang on the president of CNN's door. He knows when I'm coming.

I've been able to come back at a high level which is something I'm happy about, not just stand on the pitch but able to perform as well.

I can speak about me: I never want to be off the pitch; I never want to come off.

It doesn't matter, if you're on the pitch, how old you are. You have to keep going - you have to perform - and if you're 18 or 36, you have to play your games.

I was always, always running. I was running since I was small. And it is something I also learned from watching my father because he never gave up on the pitch and was looking to score the goal.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.