Quotes About Perseverance

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

I've been counted out a lot of times, but always find a way to win.

Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?

It's not fun to watch your team go out, and guys that you've worked so hard with, and the countless hours you've put in on your own time to go and showcase all your hard work, and then have it taken from you and then see your boys playing without you.

Football is marvellous and there are countless ways to play and to win.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

Back when I first started in country music, you did it because you loved it, because it definitely wasn't where the big money was.

I win when it counts.

You have to win every battle. Every small metre counts, and you have to win your duels. Then you will see you will win the game.

I might get to the barn later, but I stay longer, and that's what counts.

At the end, if you are good in your film and you have more films coming your way and good characters to play, nothing else counts.

The only thing that counts is hard work.

To be favourite or not, it's the game that counts.

I used to go into the practice room when I played county. Sometimes I wasn't playing until five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and I was there at 9 A.M. The cleaners were hoovering around me.

I never thought I'd be a senior player in a county side, let alone the England side. When you break into a county side, that is your aim, so it's an incredible feeling to have achieved that with England.

Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in the right spirit and you do it honestly. That is not how it went wrong at Notts County.

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad back.

I can't dwell on having a couple drops. It's going to happen - it's the NFL.

I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to.

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.