Quotes About Perseverance

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

There have been many frustrating games. I don't there's going to be another one that isn't frustrating. That happens, but that's sport. Otherwise why would there be so much glory in victory.

To be a sports person... There is a never say die attitude you have to have to succeed. The first thing I say is "die..." If you beat me, I just give up.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

I think the sport needs the help to continue to motivate athletes.

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.

I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.