Quotes About Perseverance

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

I had a job since I was 12 years old. I did everything under the sun. I pumped gas. I worked at gas stations, car washes, dry cleaners, anything and everything that I had to do to pay the bills. So for me, I know what it's like to hustle.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Someone once shared a statistic with me about how long it takes women to make their second films. On average, it's three years for men and eight years for women.

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

You can't statistic through your whole life.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

What helped a lot was becoming a dad at 47. I can't begin to imagine how I would have coped when I was just starting out with Simply Red. Gabriella and I would have been another one of those divorce statistics.

I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.

I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn't because I wasn't playing hard.

People told me it was a mistake to marry so young but you can't go into a marriage thinking that because the divorce statistics are so high your marriage won't last. You have to work at it day by day. Though certainly marriage isn't a final, heavy commitment, like signing your life away. It's the type of thing you can always get out of.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act.

People looking down, looking down, don't think a guy like my stature can be an All-Star. And every night I try to step out there and prove them otherwise.

There have been other players of a similar build and stature to myself - slim, if you like - who have come here and shown a physical resilience in the way that I hope to as well.

There are instances where, in my mid to late 20s, I very often found myself going for roles that they didn't want to cast me in, because I'd done good work, but in a producer's eyes, I wasn't high enough status. So I lost out.

The star family status can easily get you opportunities, but the offers dry up after a point when you don't prove yourself.

99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pretty nice crib.

As a young player, achieving All-Star status isn't as easy as you might think.

I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.

If there's a kid who's out there in the world watching wrestling, and they see me, and they know I have my Ph.D. while I was wrestling, that could possibly inspire them to not drop out of school, to not drop out of college, to go and obtain that type of educational status, and that, to me, means a lot more.