Quotes About Perseverance

There have always been extraordinarily tough men in the business of sports-entertainment. My view is that one can't be in the sports-entertainment business successfully and long term without being tough.

I really didn't think it was possible because there was really no one from my neighborhood that I knew or saw that made it successfully as a professional rapper. So it was like, OK, I don't know if its even possible.'

Mum was in her early 50s when she had four strokes in quick succession that almost took her off. I'd just come down from Cambridge with a rubbish degree. I spent a year reading to her - her eyesight was badly affected - and making sure she got proper rest. It was a special time but very intense, too.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.

Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.

I don't succumb to pressure.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Gian Luca and I have been together for such a long time, we're in it for the long haul.

First-ever woman to have an iron-man match. It's been such a long time, to be the second woman ever to main event a Raw.

There is so much of politics in sport that I sometimes wonder how did I survive for such a long time.

When I left Spurs I was one of the best defenders in the world and had done so much for such a long time with ultimately little reward. I practically kept the club up on my own for two years.

I've been in the mix of great projects for such a long time, I know what it takes.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

People can be sensitive, so if I need to, I'll suck it up and be more flowery. I'll do what it takes to get the outcome I want. As I like to say, sometimes you have to crouch to conquer.

There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'

I love when people tell me that I was gonna be a bust. I enjoy when people tell me, 'You suck. You can't dribble. You can't shoot,' because it's like, gotta go to the gym.

I think you should be a fan of something first if you intend to spend your life around it. You're going to have days when things don't go your way at the track. On those days, you just have to realize they happen to everybody in his sport and basically just suck it up.

I really suck at 'Smash Brothers.'

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song.

I really wanted people to understand beating the stigma of, Hey suck it up,' is really important, because it's not as easy as that.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.