Quotes About Perseverance

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.

I'm not gonna call myself the little engine that could because I'm 5'10 and I'm far from little - I'm the little engine that roared.

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.

I'd rather say that had the going not been tough, perhaps it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

I think a lot of people think you've made it when you sign, but that's when the hard work starts. But it's all been mad enjoyable seeing fans grow.

For some reason, the more the pressure comes on, the more enjoyable it gets.

It's been a successful and enjoyable career for most of the time. I've lived the dream and done everything in boxing but sometimes it feels like I don't get the credit I deserve.

At the start, when I got to nearly 12 years old, I actually nearly gave up football. I wasn't enjoying it.

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

If you are passionate about something, with hard work and opportunity, you will continue as long as you are enjoying what you do.

I'm enjoying playing. As long as that continues, I'll carry on playing as long as I can.

I'm enjoying every last thing fighting has brought me.

I kind of almost get enjoyment out of adversity in life.

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.

I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.

For the fans out in public, I don't make enough money to not fight.

I've always striven to ensure that I work on one film at a time.

I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to enter their minds that they might be engaged in a struggle or that there might be something to struggle with.

I always wanted to enter the UFC, and they gave me that opportunity twice.

You come on my course and enter my world - I don't care who you are or where you're from - you're a number until you prove yourself otherwise.

You enter every competition wanting to go as far as you can.