Quotes About Perseverance

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires.

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.