Quotes About Perseverance

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.

The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom. I watched her struggle for 17 years, and when I was 19, I got a chance to pay off all of her debt after two paychecks. That's a crazy feeling.

I put myself in debt to get to the NBA.

I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own theatre company even though I was in deep debt in 1988.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

If you'd asked me when I was 18 if I'd be happy being in the top 100 male players for 10 years, I'd have taken that like a shot. As it turned out I was top five for a decade.

To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.

I am blessed to have made my career as an actor for a decade now and I'm grateful for that. It could arguably have gone better in ways and it certainly could have gone worse, but you have to keep fueling the fire.

I know what it feels like to have a talent and not be able to use it for almost half a decade.

Two decades in athletics is a long time in sports.

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

My father worked for more than four decades in politics, in Indian democracy, and it took us 20 years to build a house for ourselves.

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

When you learn Indian classical music, sometimes it takes decades to perfect a raga.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

The decathlon is exclusive company.

I guess the decathlon's never an easy walkthrough.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.