Quotes About Perseverance

I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

When I took up cricket seriously, I wanted to play for India. When my dream was achieved, I thought what next? Then a fellow cricketer told me, 'Playing for India is easy; playing for 10-15 years is difficult.' Then I changed my dream to play 100 Test matches. I achieved that as well. Now there is nothing to achieve, so I am just enjoying things.

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.

Very few people get into that category of being a good grafter.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

If you decide to move to L.A. like, 'I'm just gonna see if it works, and if nothing works I'm gonna go back in a year, two years' - very, very few people with that attitude are successful. You need to make a commitment to this and say, 'This is who I am, and this is what I do.'

There's a few people that I write with that we don't stop until one of us cries.

There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their own future.

I've worked really hard in this industry and feel I've learnt a few things along the way.

You need to cut a few things out if you want to be the best you can be.

I decided I really wanted to go into something athletic. But I was 23, starting later in life, so wrestling was one of the few things available.

A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

It's so important that we take auditions less seriously, take your work seriously, but take the industry a whole lot less seriously because it is so fickle.

This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.

I can't remember who said, 'No film is completed, just abandoned,' but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

Football is not just what you do on the field.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.