Quotes About Perseverance

Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.

You only get better by playing.

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

You can't be playing halfway or you are gonna get halfway results.

I'm gonna have some nights when it's not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it's just gonna come. I'm gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything's gonna pay off.

Playing basketball for me is like breathing.

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.

One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.

I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

This game has done a lot for me personally. I've said this before, football really leveled the playing field for me as a person.

As a goalkeeper, you want to be the best, but you can only get better by playing games, making saves, and putting in man-of-the-match performances.

Every game is a playoff game.

There's going to be different kinds of challenges on a yearly basis. You're going to have to overcome injuries, or you overcome a playoff loss or what have you. So there's always challenges in this business.

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

When you watch Chris Paul on the playoff stage, you often sense he is fighting two battles, one against his nature and one against his opponent.

That's the reason why you work so hard all year long, to put yourself in a playoff situation.

My favorite players in January aren't those living the charmed playoff life, but the guys who can get up when they're knocked down, who forget the last mistake so they can make the next big play.

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

To see other teams in the playoffs and battling for the Cup, it's something that gives you a little inspiration.

Playing the whole season and going through the whole playoffs in 2011 was the hardest 10-month period.

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

You put in the work, you should get to the playoffs.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.