Quotes About Persistence

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

If you want to do something, anything, with all your heart, you will find a way.

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Failure is success in progress