Quotes About Perseverance

There certainly was a time when I started when people looked at me as the secretary to Dr. Buss. Being the boss' daughter amongst your peers, you gotta show up every day.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.

I wanted to build respect with my peers... I felt like I had done that throughout my WWE career. I really felt it and knew it was there when I got injured.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

I have had penalties in finals so I have experience.

One penalty miss doesn't change anything.

I know everyone is talking about them like it's easy but you can lose a final with a penalty.

Sometimes you'll go up against keepers like Casillas - the 'penalty killer,' as many of us call him. Other times, there's that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

I'm confident in myself. It's not a case of I've missed a penalty, and I'm down.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

I'm still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

When I got married at the peak of my career, people told me that it's over for me. But I didn't let people's opinion penetrate my mind.

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.