Quotes About Persistence

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort Who shall me let?

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.