Quotes About Perseverance

When I was in juniors, I was fighting twice a year and going nine months without fighting.

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.

Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.

When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.

Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

I never finished the ninth grade.

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and folkstyle wrestling I did for years.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.

No fighter will ever get under my skin. There's no chance of that happening. I've been in this game for far too long to fall for that.

Interceptions are gonna happen. You can't worry about that. 'I made a mistake? OK, I have to make up for it.' That's my attitude about it. If I worry about it, I've got no chance.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.

You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were going to like it or not, we did it because we love it.

Even I had a lull period in between when I was sitting at my home without work for a year and a half. There was a time when I did not know whether my film will be made or not. I had no clue back then, but I did not sit and complain.

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

I want to fight everyone. Weight makes no difference when it comes to who I want to fight.