Quotes About Perseverance

I love bowling and could bowl, bowl, and bowl.

You cannot be successful by just bowling yorkers.

Obviously, if I start bowling more, I will get better. To bowl more, I must be effective whenever I get to bowl - it doesn't matter if it is the 40th or the 100th over.

I have put in a lot of work on my bowling.

I am actually learning to enjoy bowling, and I never thought I'd say that. I didn't enjoy it in the past because it hurt. It hurt my back or my ankle.

No matter what, I was always looking for a wicket. Whether I was bowling to restrict or bowling to get wickets, at the back of my mind, I always had the thought that I wanted the wicket.

I had to go back and work on my bowling when I first came in. I was out of the team for three-four months before I came back into the ODI team again. I had to work on my bowling, which I did and the results are coming.

If they come after me and my bowling you get a bit down. But when I am fielding I think about it and there are worse things that can happen. I take in the atmosphere a bit and think this is not too bad.

I was a rough kid. And this is all I ever wanted to do. I never wanted to be an astronaut. I didn't want to do anything else but box.

I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

I've boxed all around the world.

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.

I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

Before I starred in 'Million Dollar Baby,' I wasn't really a boxer. I just worked hard to learn as much as I could before we were there on set.

The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

One of my short films was about a boxer.

I've won a world title and then lost it to the top boxer on the planet.

It's just a personal challenge, I'd like to see how I can do as a boxer.

You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.