Quotes about Perseverance

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

I feel like everybody's got their health issues and their battles, and yeah, mine go up and down. It's never really over.

This is what I know for a fact. I know that every guy playing in the league, they have someone out there that loves them swearing up and down that they shouldn't be out there.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.

Even Sachin used to get ducks during his career. There are ups and downs in every athlete's career.

I've had so many ups and downs in my career. When it's going good, you learn to enjoy the ride.

I've been through a lot. I've had so many ups and downs in my career. I think a lot of it is you just have to be the same guy every day.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.