Quotes About Perseverance

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.

I'm my production team's biggest nightmare.

Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I'm ready to walk through the fire.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

I went over a year without playing baseball. At 39, not playing for a year, a year and a half, there were a lot of nights I was saying, 'This is going to be tough.'

I have a crazy work schedule, I don't eat good food, and I often work through nights, but I am just doing what I love.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

I have busy nights.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.

When I look back at my first few seasons in the NBA, we didn't dominate as a team. There were a lot of nights where we took a beating and got whacked across the head. But we got better along the way, and we started to taste the success. With that came the pressure and expectations to be successful.

There were nights I was at home crying, thinking I'd never make it. I'd get up the next day and go to the audition, do my best, and try my hardest.

Everybody is going to have tough shooting nights. It's natural.

Life is not only about dark nights; it's also about beautiful, sunshiny mornings.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

You have to keep shooting, even on tough shooting nights. You have to believe the next shot is going in.

Anytime you can start the season off with a new organization and see all the work they put in - guys in the shop that I don't even know are working late nights.

Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.

I had to build my name here by doing talent nights, talent competitions and networking and meeting all the working girls and figure out how to work this animal of New York City.