Quotes About Perseverance

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

The one thing every athlete wants and needs is somebody who's as motivated and committed as she is. Someone who's willing to work hard along with her.

She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if by walking long enough, hard enough, she might forget.

And don't look for guarantees. There are none, not in any human relationship. We all have so many flaws that it's a wonder men and women ever get together. Or stay together. But they do, Tuck, they do.

You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.

All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

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Yell. Heckle. Do anything you want. We came here to play baseball.

Take life one basket at a time.

They say it can't be won, The way the game is run. But if you choose to stay You wind up playin' anyway.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

People always tell me I shouldn't run so far because I'm too young and my bones will fall to pieces. But I do it anyway-mainly because I love the bit when you finish and get to stop running.

Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!

I suspected other people were better at living than me. Did others elbow their way through fog, rising out of it somedays, relief blending with terror at its return?

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

Wherever we are posted, there we stand, come life or death, to the end.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.