Quotes About Perseverance

There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.

You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

Few of us have chosen our clubs, they have simply been presented to us; and so as they slip from Second Division to the Third, or sell their best players, or buy players who you know can't play, or bash the ball the seven hundreth time towards a nine foot centre-forward, we simply curse, go home, worry for a fortnight and then come back to suffer all over again.

Is there anything more adult than sticking with a relationship that's falling apart in the hope that you can put it right? I've never done that in my life.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are suppose to go.

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.

So the whole conversation is going right off course. It's like a supermarket trolley with a wonky wheel, because all the time I'm thinking, this should be easy to push along, and everything I say just takes me in the wrong direction.

I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it.

There aren't any buts," said Bill. "That's the whole point of being a writer, isn't it? If I wanted buts, I'd go and work in a fucking but factory.

She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that.

My friend Simon managed only sixteen of the seventeen League games - he smashed his head on a bookshelf in London a few hours before the Grimsby game on the 28th of Decemebr; his girlfriend had to take his car keys away from him because he kept making dazed attempts to drive from Fulham up to the Abbey.

Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three, even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. (What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.)

This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long.

Más aún que eso, estaba como de costumbre a la espera de que el Arsenal me enseñase que las cosas no siempre van a peor, que las malas rachas terminan tarde o temprano, que se puede cambiar de hábitos, que no es posible perder muchos partidos seguidos.

Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.

One thing the last couple of years has taught me is that there's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.

Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have never had to count the packs of cheap cigarettes in order to avoid mocking eyes and floods of tears…not really, not actually, not as such. It just feels that way, sometimes.

Inilah hidup, Marcus. Kau harus berjuang untuk apa yang kau percayai, dan kemudian menetap padanya. Itu sulit, tapi itu bukannya tidak ada. Dan setidaknya, itu mudah untuk dimengerti.

There was a lot of work to do, and arguments to have, and kids to take care of, and money to find from somewhere, and sleep to lose. I could do it, though. I could see that. I wouldn't be sitting here now if I couldn't do it, would I? I think that's what Tony Hawk was trying to tell me all along.

I can handle the pain, it's the hope that kills me.