Quotes About Perseverance

You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

In sports, you play until you can't win anymore.

In some sports, you have a way to come back through repechage but in the game of life, there is no such thing.

I was a normal guy with a job at Costco, thinking about going back to school. I played sports; I hung out with my friends. I wanted to make something of myself, but I didn't know what.

I'm such a day-to-day person and 'Sports Illustrated' was a 12-year-long dream that finally came true.

In so many ways, I just love athletics. It would be really hard for me to pivot outside of the sports world.

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

I don't know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.

I'm a sportsman. I am used to failures, and bouncing back from them.

That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I knew I was going to be a sportsman.

I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

Every sportsman wants success. It is very important.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

It must be very daunting being an individual sportsman.