Quotes about Persistence

As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Continuity is important in sports.

I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.

I have always been of the belief that whatever the conditions, you just crack on with it.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something.