Quotes About Perseverance

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

If you want to do something, anything, with all your heart, you will find a way.

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.