Quotes About Perseverance

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to me that's a self-elimination.

Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. With me, it stuck more than most kids. Ever since I was little, I wanted to do it.

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.

Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go to one Games but four.

No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.

I'm not the best athlete.

I'm an athlete; my dad had made sure I played all the same sports as boys growing up, so I was always super competitive.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

I've always felt I should do things 100 percent or not do them. It's all or nothing. That's what makes me a good athlete - doing things with all the 'ganas' I can.

Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.

I wasn't a great athlete.

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

I'm an athlete in general.

These guys, just because we're NBA athletes, we're not superhumans.

I am one of those athletes who is very hard on myself.

I enjoy wrestling. I enjoy the sport. I get to go against the world's best athletes.

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

Athletes are moved - human beings are moved - by challenges.

I tried to be one of the best-conditioned athletes.