Quotes About Perseverance

Not only am I at a decent fighting weight already, I don't let myself balloon anymore. I let myself get up to 280, 290 before. I can't believe I let myself do that.

It's easy to become complacent when you are earning decent money as a young player. It's important to understand that there is a lot to achieve, and there is a long way to go before you are where you actually want to be.

I have had a decent career.

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.

I was on 'Gilmore Girls' for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

Thanks to football, I live a decent life.

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

Unless I think I can manage to make something decent, I won't.

I'm 28 now. I've played 10 seasons in the top division, scored 170 goals in 400 games, and still I'm having to prove to people that I'm a decent player.

If you want something badly enough, and decide that you will get it, you will.

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

When I decide to do something, I do it.

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

Fear of decision-making is one thing I personally resist, and I'm trying to encourage others to resist as well.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

Managing the Royals is a job for a man playing without a full deck.

As soon as people decline my services, I'll put my briefcase under my arm, and I'll be off.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.