Quotes About Perseverance

I've had to make lots of sacrifices, particularly off the pitch.

Marcus Rashford has done really well. He had a great first season, and then people had really high expectations, but he showed his quality on the pitch in the second season.

I was always, always running. I was running since I was small. And it is something I also learned from watching my father because he never gave up on the pitch and was looking to score the goal.

I want to be on the pitch, whether it is for someone else or for Leicester.

The best players, they're always the last ones off the pitch, always working on this, working on that, and they put that into games.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

The more minutes you get on the pitch, the more you can prove yourself.

The main thing is to be on the pitch and enjoy my football.

Not playing is frustrating; you want to play in every game. But it's the life of a keeper. You'd rather be on the pitch than off.

I work hard every week and when I come off the pitch after each game I like to think I've done everything possible to help my team.

You have to try to move your feet and get to the pitch to hit the spinners away.

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

Be aggressive... That's the type of pitcher I am. I go as hard as I can for as long as I can and see where the cards fall.

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.

I want to be the best pitcher in the world.

Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It's up to me to come up with an answer.

I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.

I started coaching in the Interregionale league in Catanzaro. There were pitches with no grass; at times, we had no water, no training equipment. I had to do it all myself.

When I went to Australia on the India A tour in 2014, I played on flat pitches against batsmen, some of whom were Test players. That experience taught me a lot, as I also was playing with a lot of Test players in our side as well, and I learned about being mentally tough.

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

When you're not hitting and they're making good pitches, it's hard.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.