Quotes About Perseverance

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

You play to win the game.

I always think street but train sport.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

I think skating helped me find myself.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.