Quotes About Perseverance

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all about to end when 'blank' happens, or when the number comes in, or when the invention takes off.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

I may play poorly at times, but I'll always try to give my best effort.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.

I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

You gotta stay on your P's and Q's. When you popping so hard, got these blessings coming down, you got the devil tryin' to get at you.

My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

From the age of 17, I lived the life of a hermit and dedicated myself to gym life, first in the South Bronx and then back in England. I was in a bubble and I bypassed a lot of popular culture.

I love to play, and I love the sport, but I don't play it to gain popularity.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.

I went to a 'Divas' search because I live in L.A. It continued from there. The final portion was in-ring training. I fell in love with it the first day.