Quotes About Perseverance

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

You can't take no breaks.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

A good nail does not fear being hammered.

Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.