Quotes About Patience

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

I know a little bit how it is coming back from an injury, trying to find your rhythm.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

When you first come back from a long-term injury, you're just trying to get your body in order and trying to get back into the training and match routine.

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

Even a good batsman requires a year or so in test cricket to settle down and play long innings.

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

I've been going absolutely insane! I've two kids, two-and-a-half and one-and-a-half at home.

I don't like downtime, and I just am too insecure that I'll not work again if I don't start the ball rolling on the next round of things. Everything takes so long to make and come to fruition.

I don't get insecure and rush to sign movies just to be in the public view and news. That is not the way I am.

You can't rush inspiration.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

Sometimes, you connect with people instantly, or you take time.