Quotes About Perseverance

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

I work so hard for what I do. To achieve what I have has taken me half of my life to be able to achieve what I have achieved. And for people to think I have taken a shortcut, it's not right, and it's not fair.

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

I've taken my beatings and learned how to get around and succeed against the big guys.

It's taken a lot of years for me to learn how to share my story.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

Any experience you go through, you take something away from it, and I've always taken more from the harder times.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

No one's taken anything from me.

One reason why I've taken 11 years to make my second Hindi film is because I am comfortable working with the stars in the South, as they are with me.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

All the materialistic things I have been able to have over the last number of years are slowly being taken away from me. It's been really challenging but also it's been encouraging to myself to see what my God is actually doing.

People said: 'You're too big to play football,' but I kept playing and it just happened that people have caught on to me and taken to me. The nicest thing I get from it is that I can be myself and people seem to like it.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

Confidence is sky high, but we're also all very grounded. We know, in football, nothing can be taken for granted.

I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

Sad stories have no takers.

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

Discipline, focus, endurance is what it takes to be the greatest at this sport.

It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.