Quotes About Persistence

You can't be playing halfway or you are gonna get halfway results.

I'm gonna have some nights when it's not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it's just gonna come. I'm gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything's gonna pay off.

My favorite players in January aren't those living the charmed playoff life, but the guys who can get up when they're knocked down, who forget the last mistake so they can make the next big play.

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

The season is a beast within itself. It's not the quickest race; it's a marathon. In the playoffs - if you're fortunate enough to make the playoffs - that's more like a dash. You have to concentrate on one opponent. When they're done, you have to concentrate on another one.

The team that can be consistent - for the most part all year - is going to be the team that is going to get into the playoffs.

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.

A club that plays in the Champions League is the goal, but I don't have a particular one in mind.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

I had plenty of people pass on 'Every Little Thing.'

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.

I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.

There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being a writer. So, I don't even think about other people. I'm just interested writing about human beings so if somebody calls and says, 'We'd like you to do it,' I'd say, 'That sounds like a cool idea.'

There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.