Quotes About Perseverance

I've shown I can perform at Premier League level and that's where I want to be playing for the next few years. That's where I want to stay, it's the big league and I'm driving towards being there for as long as I possibly can.

You only get half a chance sometimes against these big boys in the Premier League.

I want to go back to play in the Premier League. I feel it's where I belong.

I arrived in the Premier League late at 29 years old - you still have to live 50 years after football. You do your best for yourself and your family. You've got to fight for what you believe.

I don't think you can manage 400 games in the Premier League, 550 in the Championship, play 980 times and not be a little bit organised.

I've played two years in the Premier League, and I think I've shown everyone what I'm capable of.

There's plenty of points to play for in the Premier League.

Everything about the Premier League is wonderful, even when you get beat.

It's important that we have the right mentality because it's not easy to win games in the Premier League.

The Premier League is definitely a big step up but you've got to be ready.

I always believed I was a Premier League player, but in the first few months when I wasn't getting a game I started to doubt whether I was good enough. Everyone kept on telling me: 'Wait for your opportunity and make sure that you take it' - and that's what I did.

Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.

You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

Anybody that comes in, a new person is supposed to spend six months downstairs in the basement doing prep work. I didn't. I got on the line right away.

Each fight has its own preparations and challenges.

Every race is like training and preparation.

I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.

My focus is my preparation, my good condition, and every time, I go forward and forward, and nothing can stop me.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

It's the training that's the hardest. It's the preparation. The months and months of preparation that nobody really sees, that's the hardest part.