Quotes About Persistence

I never put it to where I say, 'I'm just this big pay-per-view star,' or 'I wanna be the No. 1 pay-per-view star that got all the ratings.' No, I was just like, 'I'm gonna be a world champion. That's what I'm gonna be.'

All I want is to be a world champion and I will take on anyone to achieve that.

I have been a world champion, I have climbed that mountain.

To win the World Cup, you win it one bit at a time.

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

To be the first player in the world to take part in three successive World Cup finals is very important.

Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.

I won't win a World Cup, and I won't win the Olympics, but I'm sure I can compete with the best, and that's what I want to show.

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

Winning the Europa League with Atletico Madrid and then reaching a semi-final of the World Cup is great.

I have not compromised in the last seven years on my preparations, be it a small series or a World Cup. I know that there is a World Cup, but I want to go out and play my game.

The World Cup is the toughest challenge there is. You have seven matches where you have to bring your best and cannot let up at any turn.

I remember anchoring the World Cup 2011 show when I was seven months pregnant! So, I don't think that my connect with cricket will ever end.

I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.

I'd like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.

I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

It ain't over till it's over.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.

I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.