Quotes About Perseverance

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

I swear every day I love it more and more. If you want to go 47.0 in a 100 free and you're 47.1, you have all these years behind you and it comes down to a 47-second race. It can be so brutal sometimes, but that's the part I like about it.

Let's swear as brothers that we won't rest until we gain freedom.

They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

I swear I am the worst gamer. I try, I try, and I try, but for some reason, you know, it - yeah. I got - everybody beats me. Let's just put it that way.

I swear, if anyone near me even so much as whispers the sentence 'Women probably don't want to direct,' my fist will fly as a reflex action.

When we have a lot of the running, which we do on green screen, that is actually the hardest... I swear I have, like, four separate scenes in a row running, and I'd only done one at a time before.

Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man.

The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous.

If you don't want to sweat, stay on the couch.

Life is not perfect. I've had my share of sweat, blood and pain.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

What you sweat is what you get.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

I love to sweat.

Sweat equity is the best equity.

I went through 17 operations. I had to deal with the pain every single day. I used to compare my scars with buffalo skin. And because my skin wasn't have any pores, I cannot sweat, make me feel so tired, so headache.

You know, obviously I've been around for a while, so I've got a little sweat and blood equity built up.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.