Quotes About Perseverance

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I have a family to feed.

Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

I hope to play until I'm, like, 38 or something, and that's a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family's part.

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Winners do what losers don't want to do.

You only fail in life when you decide to give up.

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

Into the sky to win or die.