Quotes About Persistence

I absolutely loved basketball. All I ever wanted to do was play basketball.

I don't do anything else but play basketball.

Even before I made my high school team, I'd say I want to be a NBA player, and people laughed at me with, 'Get out of here, you ain't going to be a NBA player. You don't even play basketball.'

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

I want to try to have fun as long as I can and play football at a high level. I do not know how long that will go on.

I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

My long-term aim has always been to play football at the highest level I possibly could for a big club. When that is in your mind, you don't give up; you constantly fight and battle to make that happen.

I love to play football. Why would I run away from playing football?

It's kind of nice, and rewarding, to have been on the journey from having to play football and work to being a professional.

I just want to play football.

My dream is to play football as long as I can and that's what I want to do.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

I thought the opportunity to play golf 12 months a year would give me a chance to go where I wanted to go.

My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

I dropped out of school at 17 'cause all I wanted to do was play music. I had odd jobs on the side of gigging until I turned 22, when I was lucky to start doing this full time.

All my life I only wanted to write and play music, but it took a long time to make a go of it, and I was one of the lucky ones!

No player can rest on his laurels.

I'm not a player who's going to come out and hit you off the court. But I can chip away at people.

Each player becomes the best in the world in their own time.

You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights 'til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.

I'm just going to get out there and on court, give it my all and that's what I want to do every day. That's what I want to be known for, and that's what I want other players to know about me, that I'm never going to give up.

Great players play all matches.

I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.

I was growing up in Kitchener, practising every day on my playground - and it's all about how bad you want it.