Quotes About Persistence

In 2017, we won four races and we were a championship favorite. That's something I'm really proud of and something I'm more proud of after spending a year at Hendrick.

There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I've always had in my blood. I don't know, but since very little I've always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living.

I always want to be racing.

I've been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can't do anything wrong. You're winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn't have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

I'm simply trying to go as far as I can go in racing.

You had to be, I want to say 12 or 13 to drag race, but I was drag racing probably like at 8, and then it was overlapping. I was starting to rap, but I was still drag racing around 9 or 10, until I finally was like, 'You know, I don't want to do this no more. I just want to rap.'

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.

Metal never dies. Sometimes it's not on the radio and sometimes it's not at the forefront, but heavy rock or metal, or whatever the hell you want to call it, has always been around and will always be around.

If the radio isnt working I will take it apart and put it back together again. I wont have mended it, but at least Ive had a bit of a poke around and thats usually good enough for me.

It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old.

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

I can remember before 'Rain Man,' I just couldn't get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar - the next year, I co-starred in six movies.

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.