Quotes About Persistence

I was content playing Arena football. If a better opportunity hadn't come along, they would've had to throw me out of the league to get rid of me.

There are challenges in front of you that you face all the time in football. You ride through and come out the other end.

Because I don't look like most lead actresses look, I was told that I shouldn't even come to America. That I shouldn't even try! I think that's ridiculous.

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

When you're young, you want things to happen right away. And sometimes that doesn't always develop in the way you want it to. But my thing was to continue to work, in whatever element I could.

I get very agitated if I don't get something right away.

I'm 62 years old, but I didn't give up on my dreams. I just feel that God heard my cry, and he put the right people in front of me.

You're gonna get a lot of nos more than yeses, but you have to find the right people who trust in you and believe in you and will continue to work with you because you've got potential.

I believe that if you do all the right things, in time, you will get your opportunities.

You have to go out there and fight as hard as you can. You have to go out there and work as hard as you can and do the right things. Then you go out there and perform and either it's good enough or it's not.

Even though sometimes you don't get the minutes you want to, you've just got to continue to work hard and know that if you keep playing hard and doing the right things, then eventually things will turn your way.

Sometimes the ball is just not going to go in. That's just the reality. You got to be able to let go of the result sometimes, and just know and trust that you're doing the right things.

I am just going to keep getting in the right place at the right time and try and get more goals.

I was starting to write and I was like, Okay, I'm going to cast myself in my own thing.' You have so many of those moments as an actor because it's about talent obviously, but it's mostly about being in the right place at the right time.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

I loved being at the rink every day and training.

I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

I admire that Robin isn't scared to show up every day, since he gets embarrassed every day.

I feel if football doesn't work out for me, I can always become a rock star.

I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket. I'm tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it.