Quotes About Perseverance

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.

Baseball's what I do.

I love to be around baseball.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.

I'm really bad at baseball.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

In baseball, there's always the next day.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

We had a very small practice studio in the basement.

When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

A lot of people bash me, but at the end of the day they don't know how much I have.

People categorise people as being disabled, and it's basically whatever you put your mind to, you can do, and everybody that has limitations, they can still do anything they want as long as they set their mind to it.

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

We need to keep doing the basics well.

Preseason, you generally just want to make sure people work hard, do the basics right.

We know in football nothing is done and things can turn very easily if you don't respect basics.

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.