Quotes About Persistence

To go back means defeat.

Always give everything for the team, always chase the ball, never accept defeat.

A win doesn't last too long, and it happens the same way with a defeat. You have the chance to make it up soon afterwards.

Most single player games put a lone character against an army that is just standing around waiting for the player to show up and defeat them.

We're caught, but we're not defeated. Long live the armed struggle!

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

You're gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you've gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

Unfortunately, defeats are part of the game.

The only thing I can do is continue to defend myself.

I won the title with Arsenal in 2004 and it is harder to defend it the following season.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

I would defend, just so long as I play.

If the championship has to be defended, the championship has to be defended.

I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.

I just try to keep my game simple and just get chances. I try to stay on the defender's shoulder, run behind because they don't like it and when I get an opportunity, I shoot. If it goes in one day, it goes in. If it doesn't another day, it doesn't.

The best part about being a champion is going out and defending your belt, so that's what I plan on doing and doing it many times.

It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.

I feel like I can be a great defensive player when I put my mind to it for the whole game, not just half the game.

We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.

You should not be defined by one bad performance.

Legacies are defined not by what happened to you or how it happened. It's how you pick yourself back up and you continue to fight each and every day.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.