Quotes About Perseverance

Sometime haters would say or misunderstand how lucky I am to doing what I'm doing, to be healthy and play my sport and passion.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

I enjoy the sport, I enjoy the challenge that it brings and it certainly does bring that for me and it's not an easy one.

Golf is a humbling sport.

I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it.

Having a belt is cool, but I'm trying to do more in the sport.

I've been doing the sport since I was 5 years old. And if I don't have support behind me, it's just a dream and it will not be able to turn into reality.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

My head has played a big part and that's what makes any great champion in any sport or just in life.

Baseball is an everyday sport if you want to stay sharp.

If you are a loser in this sport, you are a loser also in life.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

I overcame size with mechanics.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

Baseball is a man maker.

Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.