Quotes About Perseverance

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'