Quotes About Perseverance

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

Sometimes sports can provide a medicine that no doctor can provide.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

Ritardo ce ne sarà per forza, a causa di intoppi praticamente inevitabili, perché fino a un certo punto è meglio lasciare che ci siano intoppi piuttosto che spendere tempo sul progetto per essere sicuri che non ce ne siano (chissà quanti anni occorrerebbero per questa strada).

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...