Quotes About Perseverance

For me, I'm really tired of living and dying with the game. Every game. I've tried to turn it off. I'm still trying. I can't. It sucks. Believe me, it sucks.

It sucks when you can't play the game you love.

Being on the losing end of perfect games sucks. I tried not to make a habit of it during my career, but I couldn't help myself.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

It sucks to say it, but if I was to go out there and get outclassed by James Vick, I'd have to hang them up. He's not good, he's slow.

If you take a look back at my body of work in the ring, I'm so happy that I had that NXT run... It sucks that my in-ring career came to an end, but I'm glad that I had that full-year body of work.

Devin McCourty

I have been playing this game since I was 7 years old, and to all of a sudden recognize that you're not going to do it anymore is hard.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

Really, I've been working forever, just doing music, and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, everybody is just on it.

Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.

From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.

When I was just 13, we went from being middle class to lower middle class and finally lower class, as someone close to my father took away everything he had, including his property. All of a sudden, I started working at the age of 13.

There was a time when no one wanted me, and then, all of a sudden, I am working like crazy. It's insane.

Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden we're all happily sailing at the same pace as we were before.

It is like any sport. You practise thousands of times and you miss the simplest ball and you don't understand why. But that's why snooker is so special, because all of sudden you can lose everything.

Ever since I became better acquainted with classical music, I've wanted to try my hand at longer forms, but I could never really see my way to it. And after I got divorced, all of a sudden I had a lot of pent-up energy and lots of stuff that had gone into trying to make this failing relationship work that kind of got reapplied.

I am used to coming in second and then all of the sudden finishing in first because nobody expected me to do it. Kind of like David and Goliath, you know. I'm not the giant.

That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it. Hits don't make great artists.

You don't play eight years and all of a sudden let your game go down just for a trade.

I'm always like this after fights - I can't sleep, I'm only getting a couple of hours a night for three or four days then all of a sudden I'm wiped out for a full night where I don't even move.