Quotes About Perseverance

I know that I can't get a big head when things start to go well because you never know what's around the corner. It's the life of an actor.

I know I've cut corners in every single fight I've had because I've used my ability to get through.

It's a beautiful thing when you come to fight week and you know that you haven't cut any corners.

It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

I've been around the bend in corporations.

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

Growing up, I was always wearing my brother's hand-me-downs, so nothing ever fit me. I told myself whenever I have my own money and my own choice with what I get to wear, it's always going to fit me correctly.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

I'm not trying to just sit on the couch for a year.

Before 2 Chainz got big, he used to sleep on my couch.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

I want all my pain to count for something.

You can't count me out.

The Allman Brothers Band has a long, storied history and I wouldn't count them out. It's just not in the cards for me.

I've got to be more than just good. I've got to be more than just great. I've got to be elite, and I've got to be that type of guy they can count on.

When I first played, I had the belief that I could go out there and win matches but when people saw me first I don't they had the belief. I had to be able to be able to prove, to tell them you can count on me.