Quotes About Patience

I was a million miles from being a Premier League player. You see some people, at 18 they are ready. At 21, I wasn't. Physically nowhere near.

Everybody knows the Premier League is so difficult, we have to think step by step.

You should never get ahead of yourself car-wise; no Merc when you're still in the youth team, no Porsche unless you're a Premier League regular.

In the first season, I didn't contribute enough, but I really believe you need a year to succeed in the Premier League; it's the fastest league in the world.

Being involved with the first team, be it in the Premier League or the Europa League, you just have to take it as it comes. You keep all the nerves inside and just play your normal game.

In a Premier League race, it's never over until it's over.

You sit on the bench in the Premier League for one week, you could be playing for the rest of the season if the No. 1 at that time had a bad game.

I always believed I was a Premier League player, but in the first few months when I wasn't getting a game I started to doubt whether I was good enough. Everyone kept on telling me: 'Wait for your opportunity and make sure that you take it' - and that's what I did.

You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside of that, you're not sure really what's going to happen. It's a funny game, but I think that's why I love it. You never know, one day to the next; you could go shoot 62, and the next day you're going to shoot 78, and you can't predict it.

When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.

Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.

Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

I have no wish to go back to being frustrated by a character. It's really just part of being on an ongoing series. You're constantly hoping the next episode you get, something will happen for you. You're on the edge of your seat all the time, pressing your hands together and hoping that something cool will turn up.

I don't ever make moves under pressure.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.