Quotes About Perseverance

It's not important how many mistakes you make; it's about how many chances you create and how many goals you score. That is my philosophy.

America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.

I'm all about second chances.

Nobody is going to keep giving me chances even after two-three of my films don't do well.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

I believe in second chances.

In international football, chances don't come along very often.

You have to work hard and your chances will come.

I mean this country is all about second chances. Look at me.

I've had close chances of success, and sometimes politics and people don't work out.

I like second chances; I've had a few myself.

If you don't score when you have chances then things start to get difficult.

This is really bad, when you create so many chances but you can't finish well.

Everybody's going to make mistakes, everybody's going to miss chances.

I've worked my butt off to get to where I am. I know that any chances that I'm getting is because I've worked hard and I've gotten myself to this level.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

You never, ever give up the chance to change things, ever, no matter how hard it is. If you're elected, and have got the opportunity to make a difference, you take it.

Sometimes when you lose it's better than when you win. Losing to Sokoudjou made me focus on what went wrong, it made me change things and come back better.

Sure, I do feel I am an ambassador for women's football. But that hasn't changed. It's been like that since I started at eight years old. I'm still me.

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.

Changing the world is not easy.

I am so happy I have been able to channel all the things that I went through when I was younger and make them into something positive.