Quotes About Perseverance

I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.

That's the key to win a lot of games: you have to pull the wagon together, and everybody has to give 100 per cent, and that's how you're going to win games.

I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.

I was 230 kg, with a size 81 waist. I couldn't buy anything off the shelf and needed more than one tailor to measure and stitch my clothes.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.

I don't think anything can prepare you for the 'Strictly' experience. It really is insane. I mean, I played football, rugby, American football. I go to the gym. I like to think I'd be quite fit, and I don't have much fat on me to lose, and yet I still lost a stone and half and three inches off my waist.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

The goal is to have a belt around my waist.

To be 40 plus and not have a 26-inch waist when you're playing the lead can be challenging at times.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Never wait for trouble.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.