Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes I draw blanks.

It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

I think a lot of bands would just make a dark, bleak album, which is why we wanted to do the opposite. We wanted to let people know that there's hope out there, and that no matter how tough things get, they will always get better. I'm really proud of that.

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

I lead the league in scratches. I'm always bleeding - I'm used to it.

Everything that I sing about, especially songs like 'Far From Home' and 'The Bleeding,' I really put 110 percent of myself into it, so it's difficult.

I ask God to bless me and I keep writing this beautiful story in football.

I'm blessed to have a little bit of success in football.

I've been blessed to have a long career.

I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that.

My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it's possible. It's not easy, but it's possible.

People tell me I'm not supposed to do the things that I do at my size. I just take it as a blessing.

Undrafted players who get to the door and don't have their name called. It's a blessing.

I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.

When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, 'Okay, I've got to be more concerned about food and health.'

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

I just make sure that people around me are fine. There is not a lot I can do anymore. Just support the people. Be with them. But at the end, I've got to go play. And after, we can talk again. But I have to kind of block it for two hours.