Quotes About Perseverance

I'm just a brother trying to figure it all out.

If you want something badly enough, you'll figure it out.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.

I think it's wonderful when people who have lost someone find love again, but I'm not personally looking, and I haven't been on a date in 27 years. In fact, it's been so long, I've had a couple of lovely women ask me out because they figured that's the case.

When guys were going out to parties, I was going to the gym. I figured, for all my mom sacrificed for me, it was the least I could do.

I think a lot of people look at athletes in general and think they have everything figured out. They made it to the big leagues... We're battling and going through the same stuff everyone else is going through, but just in a different way. Maybe it can be comforting knowing that we have to battle through some of the same stuff.

I never really felt apprehensive because of my voice because after a while I'd gotten used to it, so I figured it would only be a matter of time before everybody else got used to it.

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

I like to fail. I have had so many failures and each time I have failed, I have figured out how to grow.

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

The time I learned the most in restaurants was when I was alone in a basement, figuring it out on my own.

Filipino fighters are very tough, they have great heart every time they step into a ring or a cage.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

I don't think the failure of one film means the end of your career.

There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

It's never easy for an actor who doesn't have connections in the film industry and who has to start from scratch.