Quotes About Persistence

Quitting is never an option.

I'm not quitting Sandalwood.

I'm probably not supposed to say this, but the truth is, there were so many times when I thought about quitting basketball, even when I was at Louisville. My freshman year, I shot 18 for 72 from three.

In your life, if you start quitting, then you're a quitter.

I will never say that I'm quitting television for films.

I thought about quitting filmmaking, just because it was becoming so difficult for me.

I never thought of quitting acting or the stage.

I couldn't buy my way - I had to work my way. What a great quote: 'I couldn't buy my way into success, I had to work my way into success.'

For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.

I would say that Breaking2 was my best race because I was running against something no one had done before.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

Have you seen a marathon race? Some runners will be leading right from the first - but after the halfway mark, it is the runners at the back who take over while the early leaders fade out.

For my first race, when I was 19, I'd bought a 600cc bike. And that was far too big for me, really. I shouldn't have really had something like that. But anyway, I went and raced, and I crashed. In my very first race! But I never gave in. I kept going back and back and back.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can.

If you don't finish half of the races, you are not going to have a very good season.

I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.

Nobody had ever lost 462 races and then just won. But Dale Earnhardt Sr. had told me I had the ability, and that day, I knew I would.

Prestigious events like the Main Event at the WSOP are marathon races. Fatigue is sure to set in.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

I know y'all have probably heard I lost a few races in a row before I won one, but I never gave up. Never believed I wasn't good enough.

If I'm winning races, it means I'm doing a good job. I've put down a marker now, against drivers with a lot more experience of the car than me. This is not going to be a one-off.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.