Quotes About Perseverance

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

You've got to take the sour with the bitter.

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.