Quotes About Perseverance

Valjda je pakao tamo gde više ne postoji nada.

Ima iskušenja koje ?ovjek nikada istinski ne prevazi?e, ali koja preživi uprkos svemu. Jedan dio mene je bio otcijepljen, ubijen, uništen. Prošlost me je i dalje gušila, ali imala sam sre?u što sam kraj sebe imala ljude koji mi nisu dali da potonem.

Retko se spasemo sasvim sami...

Si nos levantamos pronto, pero muy pronto, y sin reproches, y nos ponemos a trabajar, somos un país imparable».

No se dan cuenta de que el fútbol es un monstruo al que solo puedes vencer y enfrentarte si siempre te mantienes fiel a ti mismo, en cualquier circunstancia.»

You have no idea what it means as a player when you are losing, or things are not working, and a coach tells you the reasons. 'And when things go wrong, he would insist on the idea, he remained consistent, even after a defeat. That is another lesson.

I've been successful at Manchester United for many years and it's not without its problems – every hour of every day you have to deal with something.

there are few pure footballing training sessions and there is a lot of co-existence and it isn't easy. But the lucky thing in this team is having found people with important human values.

Perdonaré que fallen, pero no que no se esfuercen.

some key principles were quickly instilled in him: 'Don't stamp on anybody but don't let anybody stamp on you; keep your head high; two-touch football; keep the ball on the ground.

La vida, tal como se ha dicho a menudo, es aquello que pasa mientras estamos haciendo otros planes. También es esa cosa que te abofetea en plena cara y te derrumba cuando crees que eres invencible, cuando olvidas que caer también forma parte de las reglas.

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

all of them, no matter how many times they won, carried around one commandment: 'I am in a huge club even in the hard times. I try not to betray the club's principles nor the idea of team play nor the legacy of my predecessors.

That August evening at Los Pajaritos, el mister, as coaches are known in Spain, told his players something that he has repeated several times since. 'We shouldn't lose sight of the target.' And the target wasn't to win titles, but to achieve a certain way of playing. If they stuck to their principles, titles would be the most logical consequence. Never losing sight of their goal would be one of the keys to success.

Si alguna vez te persiguen, hazte monte», le sugirió el Máquinas. «Hacerse monte»: meterse entre las ramas y quedarse inmóvil.

Alberto intentó consolarme con el sabido refrán de los derrotados: «Por algo pasan las cosas» (o como diría mi abuela: «Estaba de Dios que no sucediera»). Sí, de los derrotados, porque los que no se dan por vencidos jamás aceptan el veredicto de las circunstancias.

No importa el tamaño del perro en la pelea sino el tamaño de la pelea en el perro

Hemingway escribió: «El mundo nos rompe a todos, pero luego algunos se vuelven más fuertes en las partes rotas».

Prefiero ser conocido por mis grandes fracasos que por mis mediocres éxitos», citaba a uno de sus novelistas favoritos.

Fallarás el cien por ciento de los tiros que no intentes».

Mortals don't understand life is not a book you close only after you read the last page. There is no last page in the Book of Life, for the last one is always the first page of another story.

The only thing I'm certain of is that uncertainty is the hardest thing in life to endure.

What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?

Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.