Quotes About Perseverance

I don't know why it took me some time to get used to the ways of this industry because I have realized that out here when people want to pull you down they really pull you down.

I didn't think I'd be playing football at 31 so it's a blessing just to be able to come out here and compete.

My mind could keep going all day long. You give me a new body, and I could go for another 20 years out here, and do it well.

Never let your circumstances determine your outcome in life.

I see myself as the No. 1 player in the draft, but it is what it is. You can just take it day-by-day, put in the work, and the draft is going to be the outcome of whatever the draft is.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

You can't bank on the outcome.

This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.

I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.

I have always put the same effort in all my films irrespective of their outcome.

I never thought I was going to lose the first title fight. I was literally obsessed with the outcome only, and I couldn't imagine any other way possible. I thought I was going to explode and die before I lost. But I lost.

You have to continue to be positive and go out there and play hard, no matter what the outcome is.

If I don't get the outcome I want, I'm just going to keep working.

I don't take my work ever for granted. I still work very hard on every song and try to outdo myself every time.

The closest I have come to death was when I had my crash at the Blois outdoor velodrome in central France in September 1969.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

I was seven years old when my dad first showed me how to cut the grass. It was a big job for a kid my age. We had a pretty decent-sized backyard. It was on a hill - tough to mow. But I cut it so good. I double-cut it. I cut it at an angle, then cut across it at another angle, like a checkerboard. The way I'd seen in the outfield at baseball games.

When you change 10 out of 22 outfield players, you need time and hard work.

I know that my body and my mind can take anything that any space outfit wants to give me - high altitude chamber test, which is fine; centrifuge test, which I know I can do five and six G's. These things are easy for me.

In the single group format, where each team plays against the other, it gives a chance to the established outfits to make a comeback if they falter in the early games.

There are some guys that can roll out of bed and they can throw 96 from the very first outing. I've just never been one of those guys.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.