Quotes About Perseverance

I know sometimes in the off-season I have to motivate myself to get on the ice because I know there's so long until the competitions begin again.

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.

I've been on some really good teams, but we weren't able to get over the hump. It's offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

For me, I was always just a down-to-earth guy. From Day 1 my rookie year, I've been the same. As an offensive lineman, we just want to be under-the-radar, humble guys, just like to do our work and not be noticed.

If your best offensive players go down, all you can do is hang on.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

The most offensive thing is when people say, 'Everything you do is for the money.'

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

You have to go out and find a way to compete every day. I know what I can do and what I can offer the team.

I was never offered enough, and that's the truth.

I joined the international stage quite late. I didn't do many of the youth age groups, so to come into the senior team and to be offered a Nike deal - a very, very low Nike deal to start with - but I was jumping up to bite the woman's hand off to sign the piece of paper.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I get offered work these days.

Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.

I keep getting offered these women-with-a-disease things.

After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.

My first contract I was offered by the UFC, or my second contract, it was 1-and-1, 2-and-2, 3-and-3. That's $12,000 for the year. Don't complain to me about fighter pay. It was $12,000 for a year, and it was exclusive.

I always want to try for what's been offered to me.