Quotes About Perseverance

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

Don't just reach for the stars. Grab a hold of one, grasp it tightly, and pull it into your heart and soul.

Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

You can never be fit enough for this game.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Don't be (dis.grun.tled), disgruntled that someone else is more successful than you are. Let their success motivate you to become successful.

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.