Quotes About Perseverance

I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.

As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.

When you're a little girl, you never think anyone's gonna tell you 'no.'

I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.

I'm going to go out and attack it and get better every day. That's the same approach I've had since I was just a little kid.

When I was a little kid, I looked at my mom, stepdad and said, 'I want to be an NBA player,' just because I love to play the game of basketball like 24/7.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

We desire to win, doing the little things right.

Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.

If we did another tour, we probably would have stuck together. But a lot of little things happened with people coming in and talking behind the scenes.

I pride myself on being someone who does the little things and works hard.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

As an artist, as a person, I don't want to be here for just a little while.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

This is Liverpool, we will always come back when it's tough.

As long as possible, I want to have that relationship with Liverpool, to be a Liverpool player. To say I have done that for the whole of my career is something I have dreamed of being able to say.

I came to Liverpool wanting to stay here for the rest of my career. I certainly didn't want to leave after a year.

I never thought being a Liverpool player would be easy.

Nobody told me to leave Liverpool. I didn't run away from Liverpool.

There are always opportunities at Liverpool.

We can do what we love to do and also to play for Liverpool - they are such a big club. You need to enjoy it but the pressure will always be there.