Quotes About Perseverance

'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.

Letting goals in doesn't look great to myself.

You know, people would always ask me, 'How long is Primus going to go on?' And I would say, 'Until it isn't fun anymore.' At the end of the '90s, it just wasn't fun anymore on many levels.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

Weaklings must lie.

Everything in life is a fight. Everybody wants this microwavable life, and it doesn't work like that. I'm here to say, 'See what I went through? Look at me now.'

Everything you do in life is a process that you work at it, and you can't give up.

I started playing basketball very late, and for me to make it to the league so fast... I've always said my life is a movie.

There's instances where you do everything right and you work hard and things don't work out. That's part of life, and it ends up being life lessons for some guys.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

I found it tough to follow an athlete's lifestyle. But soon, it became a part of my life, and I embraced it.

America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.

Everything I do has been a lifetime in the making.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

It would take me 10 lifetimes to achieve even half of what Wilberforce achieved.

Obviously, sometimes in the summer, when you're by yourself in the gym, you lift, you run... it gets hard sometimes. It gets hard sometimes; I'm not going to lie.

I wish I had more body parts that I could work out. If I had my way, I'd be in the gym all day. I love to lift.

All I can do is lift to the best of my ability and then let whatever happens, happen.

It's easy to continue to go out to the field, even if I'm by myself or running and lifting and doing what I need to do - it's actually easy because I love what I do.

Listen, it's crazy because I almost have to work twice as hard to get the amount of attention as it is for somebody who's a little lighter than me or from a different country than me, you know?

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.