Quotes About Perseverance

Every time you don't make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.

Once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.

Whether it's the playoffs, whether it's not the playoffs, it doesn't matter as long as we're getting better.

Once you get a taste of winning, a taste of the playoffs, you just want to do that even more.

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

There are no plays run for your sake as a defender - you just have to want it.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

I plead the almighty that I leave this world with ghungroos on my feet.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

I don't try to please anybody. I try to win.

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

To all the young generation in the Philippines, please dream high.

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.