Quotes About Perseverance

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.