Quotes About Persistence

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

I'm a hardened old guy. I've been cut in so many ways and dumped on by so many teams, I've been through it all, but I'd do it all over.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.

Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

Ultimately, I ended up playing for three NFL teams. That's something I'm proud of, just to get to that level.

A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

If I was a stone mason or if I was a painter or building bridges or whatever, there's going to be some wear and tear on your body and your brain. And that's just the way it is.

When guys are in NXT - not me, but the guys who are signed to developmental deals that are there - they're setting up the ring. They're tearing it down. They're working every day at the PC. And it's arduous training, man. Those guys go through a lot.

Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time & hard work - 'The Life Line,' 'Peril on the Sea,' 'Eight Bells,' 'Mending Tears,' - all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

I never wanted to do anything but get into show biz. But believe me, success didn't come overnight. And I shed a lot of tears - like in school, when all the other kids in class made fun of me. They just hated me because I could sing and dance.

I give blood, sweat and tears inside the ring and I'm never going to stop working.

In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.

I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.

I've been Tech N9ne since '88.

Everyone has technical flaws - no matter how many runs you score.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

I get more relaxed. I get looser. I get more technical, I get faster, and you get to see way more of my game in the later rounds. In sparring, a lot of my best rounds are my third and my fourth. My fifth rounds are sometimes my best of all.

Teaching is hard. It takes years to master the technically demanding work and a lot of effort to do that work well.

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.