Quotes About Perseverance

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

Growing up in the rural south, my family didn't look like our neighbors, and we didn't have much. There were times that were tough, but we had each other, and we had the opportunity to do anything, to be anything, as long as we were willing to work for it.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

I had personal problems. I was spending 50% of my life on my family, 50% on boxing. Neither was getting anywhere. It was killing me. So I had to break away from fighting.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how we should act and how we should be, then Nelson Mandela is the man to follow.

There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small in the wake of someone like Nelson Mandela.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

I was a nerdy student.

I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

There was a time when I was 23 years old that I thought my career was over because I couldn't move my hand. It turned out it was just a pinched nerve.

As the Bachelor, all eyes are on you. It's certainly nerve-racking. The process was as hard as I thought it would be - a lot of highs and lows.

It's tough, but I have to remember that this is my passion and what I love, and that's how I keep the nerves from kicking in.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

For me, if I attack two or three times but didn't get the point, then I would get nervous.

After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.