Quotes About Perseverance

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

I could hardly walk for six months, never mind play football. I was limping for so long. I was walking with crutches - as in, properly walking - after about the first month because I thought it was much better to put my body weight on and build up the strength.

If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

You're coming off the training pitch properly tired. You'd be empty. You couldn't go and do extra finishing.

When I turned 30, six years ago, I decided to run the London Marathon and I did not even really train. I thought that it was not even that difficult. I completed it in 5hr 15min, I could have got closer to 4hr 30min if I had trained properly.

You have to have plans. But the important thing first is to do your job in the ring. If you do that properly, then success will come.

I turned to God but for a while I wasn't doing it properly.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.

The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

Our job as pros is to walk a very fine line: be the best but stay healthy so you can continue to progress and be at the top. You can't push the sport and yourself if you're always hurt.

My game hasn't changed too much. I'm doing the same things as I did in college, except I'm outside more. It's tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

We've all got different ways to deal with adversity as pros, but if you want it and you want to be great, you've got to make it happen and fight through it.

When I made it to the pros I wanted to be a guy who could stay in the league, be OK, do whatever I had to do to make some money and do what I do. As the years started coming, I started getting better.

I've been playing in L.A. for a long time through college and pros, just to be ready. It's different out here.

The professional world makes a lot of young amateurs dream, and to go from one to the other can inspire others, like me, when I heard stories of Didier Drogba and Adil Rami, who went from being amateurs to becoming pros.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.