Quotes About Perseverance

We've all got setbacks.

You can learn a lot from setbacks.

I could be two sets, two legs down but I wouldn't think that. I take each leg as it comes.

When I retired from the NFL, no one knew who I was, and I had to start all over. I ended up doing security in L.A., and I was just on movie sets and watching.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.

I have been setting up businesses since my early 20s.

I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

I'm never going to settle for losing.

I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.

You get one go round in this life. Why are you going to settle for second best when you can get everything you want out of it?

Most people settle in life, and that's not me.

It's true that players can take time to settle at a new club. I remember people telling me it took Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic a while - players who became great players for United.

I do respect a man who doesn't settle.

I'm the type of personality who just can't settle for less.

Especially a new role, it takes a long time for me to settle into a role but it's exciting as well.

I never settle.

It takes time for the dust to settle. And by dust, I mean people clouding your mind by giving wrong information and your expectations and excitement of being in the industry.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

Regardless of what happens, when I'm seventy years old, I can look back and say that I did this the way I wanted to, on my terms, and I gave it everything I got.

I have really severe tinnitus.