Quotes About Persistence

As you fight corruption, it fights back.

I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.

With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.

Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.

There's always something getting in the way - other fights being made or money and politics ruining things - but after I finish Chisora, nobody can deny me my shot.

I can't tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them.

I have been part of fights where we have been told, 'You will not win,' and we have won.

I've been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys - Carl Froch, those sort of people - and they just keep coming.

I ask for the fights. Sometimes I get them. Sometimes I don't.

In the military, we just don't leave fights.

I cannot forget my roots. That's what helps me win fights.

Very few people can reach 100 fights.

I never pull out of the fights.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

If you want something badly enough, you'll figure it out.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.

After my first book, I figured that since it was successful, I wanted to continue things better.

I never really felt apprehensive because of my voice because after a while I'd gotten used to it, so I figured it would only be a matter of time before everybody else got used to it.

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.