Quotes About Perseverance

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve their goals.

I have been a hard-working politician.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

I put myself through college playing pool.

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.

Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

My mom worked for a doctor who had a pool that he heated to 90 degrees, and I hated cold water. My dad showed me how to dive in that pool, and pretty soon I started doing flips.

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

I do track, I run football fields, I run hills. I run until you feel like you can't run any more. I do the pool, I do anything that takes my body to the limit.

My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.

My family were really poor.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.