Quotes About Perseverance

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

I know that one day I won't be good enough to play baseball anymore. But as long as I have an opportunity to, I want to keep fighting.

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play 162 games. It's a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.

Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

I like to play basketball. Sometimes if someone takes that away from you, you've got to get in your feelings for a reason.

I want everyone to know: You can play basketball in Canada and you can still get to where you need to go.

You can play basketball - if you're lucky - for about 10 years. So, you're going to have to have something to fall back on.

I don't play basketball for the money; it was the last thing I thought of when I was a little kid.

For as long as I could remember, I've wanted to play basketball at the University of North Carolina. Funny thing is, there was a long period of time when I wasn't sure how much they wanted me.

I always felt like I needed to play basketball.

Obviously I'm an NBA player, I want to play basketball.

I just think we're all high-level basketball players, best in the world. And no matter the outside circumstance, we still have to play basketball.

I never wanted to be a cheerleader; I wanted to play football.

I can care less what people say about me. If I can go to the facility, work out, play football, and go home, that's what I would do. I'm a big-time football guy. I could care less about the outside.

As far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

My mum made me do kick-ups in the living room. My sister even tried to play football. Everyone was trying to help me.