Quotes About Perseverance

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

The Apostle Paul did what he had to do to spread the message of God. I realize that that is what I have to do; I have to bite the bullet and overcome my shyness.

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.

Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't want to spread the message that all you can do is music or sport. You can be anything. Anything. That's the message I like to spread.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus nine weeks in the summer, and I was pretty worse for wear by the time I got home in December. I know I was only 34, but that was a tough lap.

It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

I'm usually rough during Spring Training. My Spring Training numbers aren't very good, but I never expect them to be.

That's why, to me, Spring Training is so hard, because every time you go up there, there's a new pitcher, and you have to come up with a new plan.

Hope springs eternal, even for hopeless crusades.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!

I enjoy his concerts and OK, maybe - I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't play the guitar, but I am going to go a long way if I keep following Springsteen.

I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.

Life is a long marathon, and you have to be consistent. Anyone can sprint for 1500 meters, but you have pace yourself through your entire life.

I'm trying to lead the pack. I'm trying to sprint.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.

I've got more stuff asked of me every week. But I drive a race car for a living. My car owner lets me race as many sprint car races as I want to run.

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

There will always be another email to get through; something to clean up, file, and organize; more errands to do. Which is why balance is so important. Life is a marathon, not a sprint.