Quotes About Persistence

I feel you can be down and out but if you are determined, nothing can stop you from winning.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

I don't give things up until I've conquered them and my focus went onto dancing and winning.

Ever since I was a kid, I've dreamt about winning the Brazilian league, and I still dream about it now. I am doing everything I possibly can to make my dream come true.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don't play well are what drive me the most.

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special.

Winning just makes you more determined to go on and do more.

I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that mastery that really drives me. I want to be best at something. I don't even know what 'this' is, but there's this inner drive to be the best.

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

The great thing about Priest, in all the years that we've been making heavy metal music, is that we've always kind of carried this metal flag, if you will - this beacon of hope that, no matter what you may be going through in life, there's always a sense of overcoming difficulties, a sense of winning, a sense of coming out on top.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.