Orlando Bloom Quotes

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

To be somebody you must last.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

Good players on good teams don't get too high, don't get too low. They're even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

But I think it's important that things endure.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.