Quotes About Perseverance

I knew at once that Carolyne, my wife, was different to the other women I had known. She understood me for what I am and never asked for anything. We've been through terrible times, but she has always been there for me. Life would be meaningless without her.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

The dog lasted. The marriage didn't. So it shows which relationship was meant to be.

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

Our big songs were all songs that were never meant to be.

I don't measure my performances in goals any more, it's more important that my team-mates see how hard I work for them.

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.

Watching Nyree Lewis get her medal in the 100 backstroke inspired me to want to go to a Paralympics and it just went on from there.

I won the league at Middlesbrough with Manchester United, and I wore my medal for the next two or three days because I thought, 'I want this again - and the best want it again and again'.

Winning the 400 meters gold at the pre-Olympics gave me a little confidence. I thought I could win a medal if I tried.

Times don't matter but medals matter.

I've been lucky: I've won a lot of medals, but I'd still like to win more.

It was those medals I won at Kottayam that gave me the confidence to dream it big in athletics.

You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

I'm not here to be mediocre.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

I was a mediocre B-average student throughout my school years.

I don't play to be mediocre.

I'm not in the UFC to be mediocre.

We train to be the best. We don't train to be mediocre.

I never wanted to be mediocre at anything.

I don't want to be a mediocre player or average.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.