Quotes About Perseverance

No one ever won a game by resigning.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

Nobody's taller than the last man standing

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

To finish first, you must first finish.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?