Quotes About Perseverance

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

I'm not just a guy that will walk in the ring and somebody's going to walk across and crush me.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.

Being in a boot is not fun. Being on crutches is not fun.

People think I'm accident-prone when they see me on crutches, but I do eight shows a week.

One person I lost to at 135 was the champion at the time, Dominick Cruz.

It took me two years to get a title shot off a split-decision loss to Dominick Cruz that the UFC told me they thought I won.

When I was playing in Santa Cruz or Mogi Mirim, they told me I was not the best. Nobody believed in me. The others would always be the top stars. But I did not let that get me down.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.

I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.

Too many cry babies in this game.

Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

It's true that if you cry hard enough for long enough, you can end up with blurred vision.

This game will make you cry more often than not.

The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun, and if it's not fun anymore, we're not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we're going to stop.' I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life.

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it.