Quotes About Perseverance

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

Football is like life and I know life.

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

A winner never whines.

In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Sports are a metaphor for life.