Quotes About Perseverance

In our business, it's hard to look at anything in retrospect and look at your accomplishments because you're so busy thinking about the next week. What we do is 52 weeks a year.

I love this... being busy and working every day.

I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.

My goal was to be a good player in this league. Got my butt up out of bed and got to the gym.

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

I'll work my butt off to do something well.

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.

I work my butt off to stay in shape, especially after having had a baby.

I've been nothing several times. But it's my faith in myself and in my father that comes back to me and makes me get back up off my butt and be something worth being proud of.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

I just try to keep the main thing the main thing: getting my butt in the gym.

There's no offseason in this business. I'm just going to make sure I train my butt off in and out of the ring.

I didn't want to learn the butterfly because it's hard. I got it right away, but I didn't want to do it.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

Having been around, I know how difficult it is to get results in this league. It doesn't just happen by buying players. It needs a lot of hard work.

I am the best sports entertainer in the world. I always hear, 'Sports entertainer? You're a sell-out!' Call me a sell-out if you want. I'm buying in. This is my brand. NXT is mine.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

I had written six scores by the time I was 20, and I'd never been paid a dollar.

Some people say I run too much, and by the time I arrive in front of goal, when I have to provide the finish, I am tired. But this is just my way of playing. I need to do this to score goals.

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

My reason for leaving 'Beautiful', because I had such an amazing time on that show, was by the time I left, I had been doing the show for almost two years. I was a little burnt out.

By the time I turned 16, I'd played more than 300 games outside high school.