Quotes About Perseverance

I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'

There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

When I was pitching 'Power,' I had an executive say, 'Well, I already have a black show.' He said that right to my face.

I never got a chance to participate in one, but I wanted to be in an iron man match. I really just wanted to go in there and I remember pitching a couple of times too, and it wasn't necessarily for an iron man match, but I wanted to just go out there for a full hour and just do a match.

If a team wants me to go to the minors to get ready and prepare, that's what I'm going to do and I will show that I should be pitching in the major leagues.

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

I think what's fabulous about 'Living the Dream' is that accidents happen to them and they've got dramas and pitfalls to get through, but they do it as a united pair.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh.

I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.

Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

You can be in this league for 10-15 years and not win a championship. My boy, Nelson Agholor, been in the league for three years and got a ring with Philly. That's what we live for and dream for. That's why I think a lot of guys stay in Pittsburgh: because we always compete for championships.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again. I never wanted to face the press again. But God gave me healing gifts.