Quotes About Persistence

Wrestling will always be my top priority.

People thought I disappeared, but I never went away. Music has always been a priority.

Acting is and will always be my priority.

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

After five years in prison, five years on parole, and a total of 10 years of being in hell, I can look back on it all and say I played in four NFL games. It's incredible.

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

I started playing pro in Argentina. Then I went to second division in Italy. Then after a lot of work, I made it to first division. And at 25, I got here in the NBA.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

Six months before the end of my mission, I was dogged by the press to give an answer about turning pro. They were extremely persistent.

I turned pro at 18 and it took me 20 years to get to world No1.

We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.

I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.

The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.