Quotes About Perseverance

When I was out there on the floor, I think I did pretty good for myself... I've never really had enough time to play and actually improve.

Everything I played, I kind of found a way to be pretty good at. My mom always said, 'If you're not good at something, then don't do it.'

I just feel people can see, when I'm 100 percent, I am running hard. I can do pretty good.

If you can be the best from Queensbridge and actually make it out, then you must be pretty good.

When I was younger, I always knew I was a pretty good player, but it was impossible to foresee how far I'd go. I had a left foot and vision like no one else, but I wasn't the quickest and my right foot wasn't so great, so there were things I needed to work on.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.

I know what I can do and I know what I want to be in the future. I fuel myself. I know I want to be pretty good and I want to do whatever it takes for the team to win.

I have never needed operations, I have had niggles the same as any other golfer after putting his body through 17 years of travel and a heavy playing schedule. I think I'm actually in pretty good shape considering the amount of hours spent hitting balls and sitting on an aeroplane.

I love adversity. It really reveals people, and I think I've handled it pretty good.

When you have players that are willing to do anything to win, usually the results are pretty good.

If you had told me when I was a kid that I'd have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it'd probably put a pretty good smile on my face.

I want to prove to my mom that I'm an amazing dancer.

I've always been a dancer, and I will always be a dancer.

I am not a natural dancer, not even a half way competent dancer.

I've been an actor since I was 12 and my dream role is Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.' What's crazy is that I'm not a great singer or dancer but I'll commit.

Still, I started as a group dancer and became known to the public as a dancer. So, dancing will always remain close to my heart.

As a dancer, you get trained to carry on no matter what happens. You have to stay professional.

When my mother died when I was 15, it felt like the end of my dreams of becoming a dancer - I had a sister and a brother and we had to pull together to look after the house and my father.

Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.

I've always worked very hard. I think dancers always do.

Dancing as a thing to do is marvellous, but you've got to be bloody good at it. I was never good enough.

I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.

Coming into 'Dancing With the Stars,' I thought it would be a lot easier.

Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.