Steve Rushin Quotes

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

But the guy who got hit and still tried to get in line, then gets hit again, that's the guy I will take with me on the field every day.

I'm a guy that's all about not trying to take the easy way out or get out of things too early.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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 is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

I just keep working.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

I just hope everybody knows I never quit.

I'm in this sport for a long time and I'm going to continue to fight with my whole heart and put on a show.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.

I was never brought up to be a quitter.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.