Quotes About Perseverance

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

People want people to do well. You can get focused on the bitter side of it, like, 'Everybody wants you to fail. Everybody's keeping the door closed to you,' but that's not true at all. Everybody's kind of in the same boat.

As far as I'm concerned, the book's never closed with Sabbath!

It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

The challenging times will bring you closer together in marriage.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

It's tough to lose and lose and lose and get a little closer, but you still lose.

I realize in every year I don't win a title, I'm closer to retiring.

The people that are closest to your heart are always the people who were with you when you had nothing.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

I was a closet stutterer.

I never thought I'd have a clothing line.

I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.

I always dreamed of playing the NBA, but along the way, the road got a little cloudy.

Even when I played in club matches, I would take it to heart that I had got out early.

I have always applied myself the same for club and country.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

When I was five, 10, 15 years old, I always dreamed of being in the best league in the world, playing with some of the best clubs.

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

I want to do this for a long time; I want people to be saying, 'What is he doing still playing in clubs?'

You know when you arrive at one of the best clubs in the world it won't be easy to play.