Quotes About Perseverance

People are always asking me, 'Do you want to be an All-Star? Is that your personal goal?' I would say that it's winning.

I don't want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing.

My favorite player, all-time, will always be Doug Flutie.

Ally Pally has been amazing for me.

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

I did almost everything in my footballing career.

I like to play. It doesn't matter if it's just me up front on my own or alongside another striker. I always want to play in the first XI.

To be alongside great stars is something really special. I hope I can get better, bit by bit.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 28 and could only learn that when someone told me to sing it.

There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.

I was alright as a player. I played for the Socceroos three or four times but I was a battler - hard at it as we say in Aussie terms.

I need to work hard and that is alright by me.

There's no alternative to hard work.

From God, I have the strength and intelligence to have alternatives and can live even without football.

I came from amateur football.

I grew up in the amateurs.

I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

When I look back on everything, I'm really amazed by my career.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

When you have ambition, then it's never enough to win.

If you don't have ambition to be one of the best, someone will always come and take your place.

We have given ourselves the means of our ambitions, and in football, when we give ourselves the means, it is always less difficult.