Quotes About Perseverance

Losing weight for me is about eating healthy and training hard and the weight falls off me.

I believe that if you love what you do, and you work hard at it, everything falls in place.

Work for the team, work hard and when the ball falls to you you have to put it in.

If I keep on winning and keep putting the work in, then everything else falls into place.

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

Fame is a constant effort.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

I'm familiar with adversity.

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

Dad re-mortgaged the house and family and friends pitched in to help me get through that first year and after that, that was it. I won my first championship in cars that year - 1991.

That's the English Premier League. You can win against the best teams and then lose against the last.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don't switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East.

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases - don't quite pan out.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

You have to give 100 percent in the Champions League, as you're up against the biggest teams.

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

I played for Bologna in Serie A when I was 16, and those experiences made me this person. Just as importantly, I never played for a big club. My teams were normal, ordinary, but through hard work, we became successful.