Quotes About Perseverance

In professional cricket, everybody wants to win.

I've been playing cricket for quite a long time all over the world, and all the situations I have been in have given me confidence.

I can't leave cricket. It is my passion.

I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

Cricket is 24/7 for me.

It's the games you lose or struggle in that you learn most from in Test cricket.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

As part of the England women's cricket team, we had our own rickety period at the end of 2005 through to the beginning of 2007. Learning from our mistakes, by 2009 we were the best team in the world.

We want Indian cricket to carry on.

When I first started playing cricket for England, there was hardly any coverage.

I wanted to bat for the England cricket team. I was quite good at cricket. But then I kept getting out for low scores. It turned out I didn't have the talent.

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

Was I afraid before every game I played? Did I throw up before kickoff? You bet. But I didn't let that fear cripple me and keep me in the locker room.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.