Quotes About Perseverance

I cant remember the last time I went in the ring feeling whole. The pain is something you learn to live with. Some guys don't and they don't last.

No, I never envisioned the band lasting this long. But then again, I cant envision next week, even though I have a schedule.

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

Every cap is my first, and every one is my last... that's the way I look at it.

If I don't score runs in 5-10 games, it doesn't mean that everything is lost. I know what kind of a player I am and what my capabilities are.

I'll just try and try and perform to the best of my capabilities.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

A lot of scouts said I was not capable to play short. Every team that came to me, they wanted me to play third, and I wanted to show everybody that they were wrong.

If I'm not capable of doing it, I won't do it. But you're going to get 120 percent of me every time I'm on the field.

That's capital L, small a - no space! - capital C, small h, a, n, z, e.

I'm not mad at anybody for that, but when I lost my deal at Capitol, things got rough.

I'm a Capricorn and I'm mad loyal - mad loyal! - and I will always look for the good in people.

Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

I was never a standout player until I played for the under-19s and became the captain. Then everything went much better - I played some games for the under-23s and after that it went pretty quickly.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

There will be goals to achieve along the way, but until I captain Liverpool, I will not be satisfied.

As captain of India, the world was at my feet and then I did not find myself in the team. Not many captains would find themselves in that position.

It is when your team is losing that the captain has to keep the players together. He has to fight for them.

As captain of the Australian team we will do whatever it takes to make sure this game continues to grow.

To be able to say I am an Ashes-winning captain... just hearing those words and saying them myself is pretty special.

As a captain you probably take it more personally when the team doesn't have as much success as you would like, which probably just makes me work harder.

You go through different emotions when you're in captivity. On the one hand you say, my career is over. On the other hand, you say, my career's just started. See with these weird extreme ideas of where you are based on this capture.

I know what it is to feel like you've gotten into a 60-mile-an-hour car accident after a fight. It's pretty rough. It's why we are where we are. We get paid to fight the best in the world and that's something you know going in is part of it.

I lost a lot of weight. No carbs for a good six or seven months. It was tough but I looked hot.