Quotes About Perseverance

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

As a person life has always been a bit of a challenge for me and I have spent so much of my early years in fear and I think that making music makes me want to be more courageous.

It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.

I enjoy hard golf courses.

I just want to get on the court.

As long as you put me out on the court, I was gonna play hard.

I don't ever want to be carried off the court.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

I always leave everything on the court, every game. Tell me how many other players can say that.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

Me and my cousin started doing CrossFit in my barn; I haven't looked back since.

My mom, how she raised me, my brothers, my cousins, when I was a kid with one bedroom for 12 people... You think about all that, and God blessed me to get somewhere and do something I love and do something I've done since I was a kid. And blessed me with the talent to do it.

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.

Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.

When I first got to the NFL, I didn't see no double coverage at all. I was getting single coverage. I was killing it. Then they were, 'all right, this guy can play and we have to double this guy.' Since probably like the 11th or 12th game my rookie year, I started to get double-teamed.

For 10 years, I'd been told I was always going to be a catalogue girl, never a cover girl. Well, I got with IMG and did five covers in a year, boom, boom, boom.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.