Quotes About Perseverance

Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.

There are moments when I think I'm not very smart and not very pretty, and skating is the only thing that stands out about me. It's like the love of my life. When you love someone, sometimes you want to break up.

'Raging Bull' was staggering to work on. I was well aware of how lucky I was to be in this extraordinary situation. That film is very unique. It stands on its own. It's just burned into the screen.

The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.

I want to get in there and jump in the stands and dive for every loose ball.

I am no longer 20 or 21 years old, so I cannot afford to sit around waiting for my chance. I am 29 years old, and I want to play, play, and play. I am not crazy; I don't want to sit in the stands.

If that's my job to lead and if that's my job to go out there and play defense, take charges, dive into the stands, then that's what I'm going to do if that's what it takes to win basketball games.

To me, as a keeper, you don't learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don't learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.

I look at my family and what they had to go through sitting in those stands and listen to their child be booed.

I played in JV games on Saturday mornings when my mom was the only person in the stands.

That roar of the crowd motivates you. And sometimes when you are in a fight, and the pain is kicking in, you hear the crowd chanting your name, it helps you to push through. Fighting in empty stands is more demanding.

My best bet is to make the most awesome-sounding music that I can possibly make and pour everything that I have into that and hope and pray that it stands on its own.

With Houston, the H stands for 'hustle.' There's a billboard that says, 'Houston, hustle, heart, and home.' That encompasses Houston.

When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time - I feel like that's when I 'Americaned.'

Before I started doing standup, I knew that I had what it takes to develop an act. I went down to clubs with not many people there, and I just worked on it, man. A lot of my friends are comedians, so that part had a lot of encouragement, even though the shows were very caveman-like.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.