Quotes About Perseverance

In athletics, I've gone through ups and downs my whole life.

Coming in, if you are the No. 1 pick, the team that is picking No. 1 is there for a reason. There are going to be ups and downs - you've just gotta stay steady through the process.

There are ups and downs in my career and I take both in my stride.

Every film has its ups and downs. Each time it seems like pushing a boat over a mountain. I worked on 'The Lovely Bones' for five years before my involvement fell apart.

I've suffered many, many ups and downs in my life. And so does everyone.

I think, in every footballer's life there are all sorts of ups and downs.

I've won, I've failed - so many things have gone wrong for me. There's been ups and downs.

I'd gone through a lot of ups and downs and learnt from a lot of experiences as a young player joining Everton and playing under pressure.

I've married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I'm just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

It's been a tough journey for me, with a lot of ups and downs but I don't regret anything.

I've had to work very hard and I've been through a lot of ups and downs in my career.

I just think there's something special about staying with your team for a long time and fighting through the ups and downs. Then, when good things happen the feeling is better because you fought through the downs.

One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

A lot of people don't see, when we lose and go through tough times, how upset and disappointed we are.

I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part of 'Strictly Come Dancing.'

I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.

It took me forever to get comfortable. When I first started NXT, we had promo classes, and I used to get so upset because I couldn't get in front of a crowd and talk. I was terrified.

When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

Dream big, but don't be upset if it doesn't happen.

Hard things make me happy. You get upset, but you mature and improve: the quicker you reach your best level, the longer you stay there. They say players peak at 28; I wanted to be there at 22, 23.

I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.

Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that's when I will be really upset and sad.

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.