Quotes About Perseverance

All the love in the world for Kofi Kingston, but I'm coming back for my spot.

I had always wanted a top spot, ever since I came to Japan in 2008.

I do not fear the pressure to win because I spent 14 years in England always fighting for a starting spot, and that's what I want to continue doing.

Now I know that when you do come to a new club, you have to fight for your spot if you want to be in the line-up week in, week out.

It is always a battle; it doesn't matter in which club or which position. If you don't perform well, even when you start, you might lose your spot in any position.

No magic wands have been waved in my direction; I didn't win some kind of lottery to land a spot at one of the biggest clubs in the world.

That would be a huge honor, if I ever were to become the No. 1 American. It's something that I've always wanted to, you know, achieve that. For me, if were to happen, it'd be great. I'd try to hold onto that spot as long as possible, but I know there'd be a lot of people nipping at my heels to try to get to that No. 1 spot.

Whatever it takes to get on the field and get that starting spot to get the carries. I've always worked hard.

There's always people coming behind trying to take your spot and I don't want anyone to take my spot.

You get into a tough spot where you're not feeling good and you can't do what you're typically accustomed to doing, you just keep grinding.

It's a game of adjustments. Your hands aren't going to be in the right spot 100 percent of the time.

I'm trying to be the best in the world and get that pound-for-pound spot and I'm trying to get paid.

It's always complicated to play for Barca. Each year I have had to fight for a spot.

I'm so blessed to have a chance to play 15 years in one spot. I know my position is different than most. But even in my position, guys that have played it this long, have probably already been with two or three different teams.

No one is guaranteed a spot at the top, no one is guaranteed a title shot, but all you can do is win your fight, keep training, and then maybe somewhere down the road you'll get your opportunity.

Every manager has different opinions and all you can do as a player is try to fight and get your spot back, or at least earn your manager's trust back to try and get your spot back. There's no use sulking about it, you just get on with it and try to raise your game to get back to the level you need to be when you were starting.

In every fight, I have a spot that I could lose the first round. When do the oddsmakers ever like me? But it's not a math equation, it's a fight.

We were shooting an outdoor scene where I run to get into a car. As I did so, someone closed the door on my leg. With severe pain, I continued to shoot after applying a pain relief cream. But as luck could have it, someone slammed the door on the same leg, yet again, and at the same spot! Next, I come to know, I have a fracture!

I think I've put in some work and I've fought some tough guys early in my UFC career in order for me to get in that spot of being on the main card.

You know you're the guy when you're working on top and closing the show. That's the spot, and you've got to put work in to get there. That's the spot I want.

I want to earn my top spot in UFC.

I'm a dancer and when I walk off stage there isn't a dry spot on me. This means my hair has to be put up again between shows. I have to make up and dress all over again.

Now, seeing little kids that were in my AAU program, seeing where I came from, the same spot that they're in, now I'm in the NBA gives them a little hope and, I guess, just opening their eyes a little bit that, with hard work and dedication, anything is really possible no matter where you're from.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.