Quotes About Perseverance

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

Needless to say, nobody is born an avid gamer.

I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

I was 'Little Ty,' 'Little Tyrone.' I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.

I love Scientology. I've been involved for 38 years, and I don't think I'd be here without it because I've had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly.

I just ignore those who say negative comments against me. Whether I'm doing right or wrong, they would still say the same things against me.

Most of my career was negative.

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I'm confident in all my fights. You have to be. You have to put any negative thoughts aside.

I would say each day I'm still growing and still learning, but negatives, obviously they're always going to criticise me for my goals and assists, which I need to add to my game if I want to be compared with the people I'm playing with.

Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.

People think if you win the 'Bake Off' you walk straight into a big book deal and all of this but it isn't like that. You've still got to work really, really hard - probably harder than before - to make the right connections, to tour with brands, to discuss opportunities and negotiations.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

I think basketball harnessed and built my toughness and competitiveness. I grew up in a tough neighborhood, and you were either going to cry and moan about it or get tough.

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.