Quotes About Perseverance

I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.

Being at Liverpool since the age of eight, it's always been my dream to break into the first team and be playing at Anfield week in, week out.

I have always dreamt of playing for Liverpool, but I did kind of think the chance of playing for them had gone. I didn't think the chance would come.

I just try and do my best every day of the week, and not look too far ahead. It's the old Liverpool style - you get it done and everything else comes to you.

Everyone at Liverpool is committed to the club and working as hard as possible.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Since I was probably eight years old, just about everyday, all the way until I was 14 or 15 years old, just about everyday my mom and my stepdad would roll around in the living room fighting.

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

There was a point when I was doing loads of shows that weren't getting a series two and I was like, 'One day, I'll be in a show that comes back.'

Loads of people wrote me off.

I went to Northampton on loan, it was long ball, not really my style. It was hard for me to make a mark.

I try to get better each and every day, learn from my mistakes, make good decisions, and put the ball in the right location.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

I'm the type of player, once I get in there, I'm locked in. I'm trying to win.

I'm telling those other middleweights to buckle your seatbelts. It's lift off. Everyone that doubted me, everyone who wants a chance, you'll get your turn. I'm running the show. You just stay locked in.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

I always say there's a couple things that I look at when I'm playing basketball. Do I enjoy going to the gym? Do I enjoy being in the locker room? When I get on the court do I still have that competitive fire to hate the person I'm playing against?

I love the game of football so every time I step on the field I'm going to do me. I'm going to go hard for the guys in the locker room.

I set some lofty goals for myself and I think you have to.

If we did not have a sense of who we were, how we got here, why we want to achieve something - which, on the face of it, on the logic of it, is probably not worth trying - and prove that logic wrong, then you wouldn't succeed; then you would just evaporate.

Nothing makes logical sense in this industry.

Being an entrepreneur is probably the most lonely thing you can do.

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

It can be tough and lonely on the road, but at the end of the day we get to play professional tennis for a living, and I wouldn't change it for the world.