Quotes About Perseverance

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.

After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

I'll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I'm the man.

It has always been my dream to make it as a pro.

I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

I started playing pro in Argentina. Then I went to second division in Italy. Then after a lot of work, I made it to first division. And at 25, I got here in the NBA.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'

I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked hard for the last eight or nine years of my professional career.

You stay sharp. You go back into the gym. You work, put that work in, get that conditioning up, you lift. You pretty much know as a pro athlete what you need to do to get yourself back. But none of that, for me, means as much as playing.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

When you're a young pro from an undeveloped country in road cycling then you're on the back foot.

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.