Quotes About Perseverance

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Every day I push myself to redefine the limits of our sport

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.