Quotes About Perseverance

I don't want to stay on the bench all the time.

I've always gotten doubled. Coming off the bench, people try to eliminate bench scorers, so that's been my experience for years now. You just find ways to beat it.

Let's say I have a new respect for guys who come off the bench every day. That's not easy to do.

If I'm starting, I'm gonna do that, that's the main goal for me, to be the best player I can be. But being on the bench, I'll be the best I can be and help the team to the best of my ability.

I am a basketball player. For me to sit on the bench at 21, 22, not what I wanted.

Most of my career, I've always kind of been off the bench, so, for me, it's not about if I start or not.

If you think that I got to come off the bench, then I am going to put you in a position to try to prove you wrong. Then after a while, it was kind of fun, and over the years it was my makeup.

This is why I had to go to Swansea. I didn't want to stay on the bench for another year.

I know what it's like to sit on the bench.

I'm going to go out and do the best I can do. If it revolutionizes the game, it revolutionizes the game. If I don't, and I become a bench player, and that's the best that I'm ever going to be, as long as I'm giving my best, I'll be content with that.

I don't train to be on the bench.

No one wants to sit on the bench.

We must never bend too much.

People, they don't know how to bend; they just break.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

Balancing schoolwork and basketball was very, very hard, but a lot of benefits came along with it.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

Besides working out for nearly six hours a day, I am also learning different forms of martial arts.

All you can do is to do your best.

I can only do my thing and do the best that I can.

Work is my best friend.

There was a point in my life and my career where I had less than $100 to spend on both of my kids for Christmas. I remember telling myself, I remember telling my best friend, I said, 'This will never happen again.' I will not let this happen. I mean, $100 for me to spend on my family, friends, everybody.

As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.