Dorothea Dix Quotes

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I've survived through my love for the game.

You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play.

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

They also swear who only stand and wait.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course.

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.