Quotes About Patience

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

The contract stuff will work itself out. If we keep winning, those kinds of things all work themselves out in time.

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.

I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.

The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them.

You don't succeed on corruption in five minutes. I wish one could.

I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.

The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

I'm not counting any chickens.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

I might get to the barn later, but I stay longer, and that's what counts.

I used to go into the practice room when I played county. Sometimes I wasn't playing until five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and I was there at 9 A.M. The cleaners were hoovering around me.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

I focus on working on my craft and the rest will take care of itself.

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Eventually, one day, you know, cream rises to the top. So, you know, I'm waiting... I'm waiting for the rise.