Quotes About Sports Perseverance

#1. After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.

Jonathan Horton

#2. Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.

Pope John Paul I

#3. A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

A.A. Milne

#4. When someone, anyone! Black, white, red, yellow, brown. Anybody! Disrespects you, get right on their ass, and stay there until somebody pulls you off. That's how you get respect, and teach people not to fuck with you at the same time.

Po Sally

#5. I realize then that I'm filled with memories, both mine and Charlotte's. It's like I've lived one full life and not two separate ones.

Suzanne Young

#6. You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Joe Namath

#7. Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?

Kamand Kojouri

#8. Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.

Merlin Olsen

#9. It feels good to show some courage.

Joe Namath

#10. Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

Louis Zamperini

#11. We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Bill Bryson

#12. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.

JohnA Passaro

#13. Then he should remember that this is holy business. No careless or casual dealings will suffice.

A.W. Tozer

#14. I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Magic Johnson

#15. We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of
information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#16. Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

#17. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

#18. Perseverance is a great element of success.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#19. Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Hans Selye