Quotes About Perseverance

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

The best we ever did was 8-8. But my career was not as dreadful as people make it out to be. You don't see any scars on Archie Manning.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

I've worked extremely hard. There's always that part that people don't see, the things you do behind the scenes.

Everybody's schedule is crazy in the NBA, so that can't be an excuse.

To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.

Even over the course of the NBA's schedule, you're gonna have games where you're gonna take your lumps.

I was never going to be a scholar.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

I was the last one to get a scholarship out of my year - at 14, I think. I couldn't play up front because I was too small.

I wasn't good at school.

I was never really good in school.

The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable.

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.

If you want to be an engineer, doctor or scientist in today's world, you need athletic ability in the body and mind.

If there is no discipline, then there is no scope for growth.

You want to score in every game and to fight hard.

Every time I take a shot at goal, it's because I believe I can score.

You can't expect to score lots of goals in every game; football isn't like that.

I know that my job is to score runs, and I will continue to do that.

When I grew up, I tried to score off every ball, be it a 10-over-match, a 20-over, or even a Test match. If I stay in the wicket for, say, about 30 minutes, I want to make the most of it and score maximum runs possible. You never know when you get out; try to score as much possible before that.