Quotes About Perseverance

At the end of my career I always wanted to look back and know that I had given it my absolute best.

The thing is, it's really hard to be the No. 1 absolute best in the world at something, no matter what you're doing.

Me and my wife started with absolutely nothing.

I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.

It's hard academically for an ADD sufferer - but, doing something they love, they can be the most focused person of all.

When you're in an academy, every day you're in at 9 A.M., and it's, 'Do this, do that,' but we just came with our football.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn't from Middlesbrough I wouldn't have done as well as I have.

I find the scouse accent a bit difficult, but I will try my best.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

As long as I am getting acceptance, I would rather take one step at a time and let the audience also accept me.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

You don't play the game to lose. But I also understand that if people are giving their 100% effort, giving it all they've got, it's going to be accepted.

I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.

I'm not accepting of whiners.

I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.