Quotes About Perseverance

Any team can have a bad century.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

I have always said that to remain at a certain level we must always give our all.

It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

As a fighter I hold a certain level of pride and can only deal so much with the politics.

I've always tried to, in terms of physical action, keep myself at a certain level and been fortunate enough to work with guys that push me to stay there.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s and 70s. It's like the career of an athlete: For many people, it ends at a certain point.

We all struggle in life at a certain point.

Once you reach a certain point in your career, every fight is a new big fight, biggest fight of your life, biggest fight of your career.

At a certain point, you get banged up a lot.

I believe in myself and I know I'm capable of doing certain things that nobody can really do, I would say.

Not everybody in this league is the most talented guy in this world, but they're able to stay in this league and make a good living for themselves because they work really hard at it and perfected certain things.

I mean, I've definitely found my thing, what I'm good at. Certain things that guys do keep them in the NBA a long time, but I've found what I'm good at, and I'm only going to continue to get better at that.

If you want to do well you have to sacrifice certain things.

Life isn't a store where you just go in and be like 'Oh, Ima get that.' It's a process. Especially if you don't really know how to acquire certain things.

If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.

What is there not to market? I fight like hell. I'm built a certain way, never taken performance-enhancing drugs.

People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way.

Making the tough shots and leaning in a certain way and a fadeaway and stuff like that, those are tough shots, but those are shots you have to learn to make in this league.