Quotes About Perseverance

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

The game isn't over till it's over.