Quotes About Perseverance

Pro wrestling is pro wrestling and it's one of those industries where things change on a dime. I'm coming up on 19 years in a business with various companies and often one day you're there and the next day you're gone.

Obviously, not many people get to be pro athletes and hopefully make it in their sport. So I'm just lucky enough to have the chance.

Luckily, I have been a part of New Japan Pro Wrestling for eight years and it's been a great run with a lot of cool things and amazing experiences.

If I'm being totally honest, I'd pretty much given up on turning pro. I don't think I'd totally given up on the dream, but I'd accepted that it probably wasn't going to happen.

You paid attention to every cornerback that was drafted before you. You always tried to outperform those guys. And for me, that's always been in the back of my mind - starting with not being invited to the combine, of wanting to make sure I had a good Pro Day and then getting drafted at the end of the sixth round.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

I always told my mother when I was growing up that I was going to go pro in something, and it came true. All the hard work paid off for me.

I turned pro at 18 and it took me 20 years to get to world No1.

I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I'd be proactive about it.

The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.

I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.

When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

You can have all the problems in the world, but you have to see out your mission.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.