Quotes About Perseverance

It is frustrating, but all I can do is just keep winning, and hopefully, people will stand up and take notice eventually.

I think I stand up more often than I should on defense. I've got to be solid and continue to get better.

You need to be brave to able to stand up to tough atmospheres and against top players.

I admire anyone who can show they can dig deep. Ballesteros and Sergio Garcia, people who are obviously mentally strong. Or Graham Thorpe. He is your fighter. He's the kid who is bullied at school but will stand up in a fight when it matters.

I stand up all four quarters even when I'm not playing.

If I want to be brave enough to stand up and make my opinions count, I will have to take the punches and roll with it.

Stand up comedy can be a tough world to break into. It can take years of painful soul searching, disappointing performances, and pounding the pavement day in and day out with very little reward.

I know how to stand up to a bully - but maybe more importantly how to work around a bully.

Cricket is hard enough: stand up for yourself and stand up for the team.

Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

I hold myself to a high standard.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.

I'm a standard overachiever.

People - myself included - expect a certain standard from me. I always have to elaborate or improve on my playing. My success hasn't made me at all laid-back. That relentless drive is still there.

I used to watch a lot of people and think, 'You're not dedicated.' It's half an hour into the game and they have dropped their standard. They weren't putting the effort in.

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.