Quotes About Perseverance

Every performer will have a bad night. It's just inevitable.

I didn't play an ODI game for 15 months when I was probably the best performer in one-day cricket. It happens in life. The best in the world are at times shown the door.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

I think everyone respects Rock. He's obviously been in our industry his entire life in some form or fashion. He's a guy that works really hard, and most of our performers can appreciate that one way or another, whether it's in the movie industry or our industry.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

After so many surgeries, I had to modify my game. I know what I can and can't do in order to keep performing for a long period of time.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

Jesus died when he was 33, and when I was 33, I was coming out of a failed marriage and was in a really low point in my life because I was really sad about that. God healed me so much during that period. So I loved that year because I leaned on God, and then, as a result, I started checking things off my bucket list.

There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.

We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices. We leave our families behind to chase our dreams, too.

If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.