Quotes About Persistence

He can run, but he can't hide.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

Nobody's taller than the last man standing

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

To finish first, you must first finish.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.