Quotes About Perseverance

I've always been very hard on myself, and I never want to get to a point where I'm like, 'Alright, I'm kicking butt,' but I know I need to be confident because I think that will take my game to the next level.

What happened was like any guy on the indie scene - I've been wrestling for 16 years; everybody thinks I'm this new, young. I'm like, 'I'm 32. I've been at it for 16 years. I just couldn't get to the next level.'

When you're talking mixed martial arts, to have a win over a guy who is by many considered the greatest of all time, is definitely going to take your career to the next level.

It's easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it's very hard to reach the next level.

The little things are what get you to the next level. I believe in the little things. The screens you don't see in the stats, the hockey assists. I'm a big believer in that.

I think sometimes with a young team, you just need to get over that initial hump to get to that next level.

I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing you know, it can all be taken away from you just like that.

If you don't get something, don't spend your time wallowing. Just move on and then speak up for the next thing, and hope that you're involved in that.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it, and go on to the next thing.

I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.

I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing.

I've known guys who've got knocked out and they get back in there too soon, next thing you know they get clipped and they're out again.

It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

My head is filled with things I think I should be doing or should've done already. I slow down because I doubt myself or I get anxious or have a bout of depression. Then I have to build my confidence back up, and once that happens, then I power through until the next time.

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

I had only been training for a year and half when I did the World Games. Then the next year I did the British championship as a heavyweight and won that.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.