Quotes About Perseverance

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

It's definitely not an overnight success. There has been a lot of work, effort and concentration to get where I am now. I've gone through different experiences, good and tough, to mould me into the player I am now.

My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

I'm a firm believer that individual accolades are a bit overrated in this game.

When I made the UFC, everyone said, 'You need to go overseas.' I thought I had to go as well, and I went to Tristar Gym, and I was there for one or two years. But changes were needed. I'd come off back-to-back losses - Court McGee and Stephen Thompson - and I needed to look at my roots and go back to the drawing board.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

Once I went overseas and had this real motivation to get back, I was willing to do whatever it took to stick in this league, and that's what I did.

They really allow you to play overseas. They let you play through everything - holding, grabbing, illegal screens, tough hand-checking and tough defense. Playing overseas for five years, that's all I knew. When I got to the Rockets, I brought that same mindset.

You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.

You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.

Coach Staley definitely had me doing overtime. It has been fun, though, man.

Losing in overtime is not much fun.

I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.