Quotes About Persistence

I have never wanted to take an easy route.

These days kids are not passionate. They lack will power to go all the way. They want to take the easy route.

It's just great watching people achieve their dreams no matter what route they took.

If you miss 10 in a row, you have to believe the next 10 are going to fall for you.

If I miss 20 in a row and coach tells me to keep shooting, that's what I'm going to do.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

I could run all day.

I've always been a runner.

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

I never felt like running away from my dreams.

Anyone can go for runs any day.

I'm just trying to score as many runs as I can each time. The more I can make over a hundred, the better.

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

I just continue to work on what I want to work on, and I'm not rushing to achieve anything, really.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

I feel fortunate every day I'm in this business. No matter how hard it is, no matter how ruthless some people are, I was born to do this; I was born for movies.

I want the single-season sack record.

Nobody's going to step in and dump a lot of money and make it easy. Unless you have a lot of money, you have to pay your dues and make a personal sacrifice.

In any art, if you want to become successful, you have to be willing to sacrifice.

It takes a lot of sacrifice - you can't do things other people are doing in their life, like I had to wait six years to have a baby... But when you're on stage, there's no greater high than that.