Quotes About Perseverance

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

With ShamWow, I had to become my own distributor because no one wanted it. Out of necessity you become something you're not expecting. It was actually a blessing.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.

Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.

I got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn't move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience.

When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.

It's depressing to think what it would mean to be impaired down the neck.

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

Confidence is one of those things that no one ever wants to talk about in this industry because confidence and ego run neck and neck. But you have to understand, those are things that you have to have in order to make it to where Edge has made it. You've got to have a certain amount of ego and confidence in yourself to get there.

I broke my neck.

You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.

The job is so fantastic, you don't need a hobby. The hobby is going to work.

We need the right attitude and the right motivation - that can decide the match above everything else.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

No matter how many years you have been dancing, I feel a guru is always needed for motivation and inspiration.

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.