Quotes About Perseverance

I'll keep growing as a player, keep working out, trying to become what I want to become.

Every player has a chip on their shoulder about something.

But really, I've worked my whole life to become a great basketball player. When I see that jersey go up, I'm sure I'm gonna have flashbacks to when I was 4 and 5 years old playing in my driveway because I loved it. I still love it to this day. It's been one of my first loves in life: basketball.

My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day.

You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights 'til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.

It's not good to have so many key players injured, but there is no point complaining about it.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

I'm just going to get out there and on court, give it my all and that's what I want to do every day. That's what I want to be known for, and that's what I want other players to know about me, that I'm never going to give up.

Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame with all the players. That little old golf I played was all right, wasn't it?

Not many people make it out of San Antonio. I can't even count on my hand how many NBA players are from San Antonio.

I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.

The players on the pitch have the responsibility to run harder, fight harder.

Great players play all matches.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

Great players have bad years.

I always say the best players I have ever worked with are the hardest players I have ever worked with.

Leading a group of players who want to win is much easier than leading a group that doubt themselves, aren't committed or are divided.

It's important players focus on what they have to do, while the fans keep believing and stay behind us.

Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.

I've been hanging out with some really good football players and having a few more opportunities to have the ball in my hands, and I think it really just comes down to those things.

For us players, we just go into each game trying to win it and see where it takes us.

I think the more common players who have been around for a while - Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad - those guys I know of, they're fantastic players.

I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.