Quotes About Perseverance

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.