Quotes About Perseverance

It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.

I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.

You've really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can't get ready because there's no telling. They'll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.

I've taken fights on short notice while injured to help save shows, and in return I've been taken care of.

I took my first fight in the UFC on short notice. I took my first big fight against a top-five guy on ten days notice.

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.

If you got the talent and the drive, there are ways to get noticed.

To get noticed you need to work a lot and have a bit of luck. And I'm here to say that it's possible.

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.

'Aiyyaa' flopped, but it got me noticed.

When I came into the England team I was always being asked whether I 'really' wanted to be a wicketkeeper. It was as though no one had noticed the work I'd already put in to make myself one.

I've played positive characters. But those films haven't been noticed.

I've noticed one in five ideas never amount to anything.

I was well aware that I am just a normal girl and it's not like filmmakers are waiting to offer me films. No designers are dying to give their clothes to me. I knew I was making my debut opposite a star kid who was already famous, and it would be difficult for me to get noticed.

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

It's important not to get hung up on the notion that everyone who has an injury is trying to dodge it.

I applied to only one drama school - if I didn't get in, I would give up the whole notion. That's how much of a chance I was giving myself.

I think if you're about to lose someone and you're lucky not to, that bond intensifies because the notion of that is never gonna go away.

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

It's cool when the O-line gets the chance to get some notoriety.

The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.

You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.

For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn't have had to sacrifice.