Quotes About Perseverance

I've said it continuously in NXT: There is no one who can outwork me.

I don't want to be in a position like, O.K., just give me a contract and I'll be on the team and play every two games. I don't want to be like that.

You see a lot of times that when a player comes through to the first team and gets the big contract, they do not take the second step because they think they have made it. The truth is that this is when it really starts.

We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

I play the same, contract or no contract, because trade-talk is part of basketball.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.

I was just trying to make it to a second contract before guys. I was trying to outplay guys on the field and trying to last longer than them in the league. I think all of those things go through your head when you're a late-rounder, and you're always trying to prove people wrong.

Whether you want more money, whether you want more fame, whether you want more attention, whether you want a bigger house, whether you want a bigger contract, whatever it is you want, you have to win your next fight. That's it.

I'm never content regardless of me having a contract. I'm not content.

As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

As long as I still love the game and I can contribute to a team, I'd love to keep playing.

I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward.

I want to play as long as I can contribute.

The day I think I'm not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I'll hang up my boots.

I dreamed of ending my career with the Inter shirt, Inter is my house and I'll try to give my contribution off the pitch as well.

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

There's so many things you can't account for that can happen during each race. I just focus on controlling what I can.

At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.

Yeah, I am controversy's favourite child. But I am of the opinion that I come back stronger after every controversy.

I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.

When you are young, coming into this business, you're told how the business works, and you feel very lucky to be here and want to stick around, so you believe the data, and you believe the conversations you're having where they say, 'You can't have that kind of lead because they don't travel here,' or, 'People will think it's not for them.'

He is so true to himself, and so good to other people. Even during tough conversations, I have never worried about him. Because I know Dwane Casey is going to come back tomorrow to try to be better, and I feel the same way. I try to be better, and so I try to be like him that way.