Quotes About Perseverance

When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing across a pair of identical blue shirts he'd hung on a water pipe behind his desk.

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

I never imagined even playing in the NFL. It seemed like a pipe dream.

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

The destination is the belt, but you never arrive at just the belt. You're always on the way to something else. You never truly arrive anywhere. But winning the belt, it's a nice pit stop.

When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do.

This game is very humbling and you have to take it one pitch at a time, one day at a time and compete.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

Once we are on that pitch, the main thing is getting that win.

People don't see the determination behind getting on the pitch every week.

I just try to go to the pitch and finish the game not being able to complain to myself knowing I have given everything.

I just want to keep improving myself as a player and a person and hopefully continue to enjoy being on the pitch.

I just want to keep on getting better and improving. Those extra hours on the training pitch, whether it be with the boys or individually, I am just looking to improve.

Enjoy the games, and go on the pitch with happiness, and go game by game.

If I am on the pitch I'm very calm because I know I've done everything to be there. That's the way to be and the way I'll feel until the last day of my career.

The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.

I always learnt that to play well, you have to train hard, so every time I go on the training pitch, I try to give my best and to improve.

My job is to go on the pitch and put my best foot forward.

I don't want to pitch forever.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

I don't remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.