Quotes About Persistence

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.

Every day you go to the gym, you've got to become a better version of yourself. You've got to never believe you've fully evolved.

When you want to be a fighter, you have to give it everything you got. MMA just became who I am because of the amount of work I was putting into my training. It all starts in the gym. The hours turn into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months; it's like school - the more time you spend learning, the better you'll be prepared for a test.

I am first one in the gym, I do cardio before I have breakfast, and I am training hard every day.

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.

I have a habit of perfecting my shots, so after I give a shot I never crib about it.

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

In a sense, much that is learned is bound to be bad habits. You're always beginning again.

I was always wanting to play tennis, to enjoy the game and I've loved everything about it and not one day will I wake up and say I've had enough.

We want to show the world Haiti can endure.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

I hate to do anything halfway so I leave the guitar alone.

I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.

I really didn't understand how I got from my singing teacher's living room to the Albert Hall.