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The great players practice until they get it right! (Even if it means staying late to master something.) ~ Mog Tivata

Stick with it! Consider the postage stamp:  its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.  ~Josh Billings

Can’t make the team? Keep being overlooked for a place in the starting line up? The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.  ~Author Unknown

Trying to impress the team coach – here’s a good one to help you stand out… Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.  ~Newt Gingrich

You can’t go through life quitting everything.  If you’re going to achieve anything, you’ve got to stick with something.  ~From the television show Family Matters

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.  ~Albert Einstein

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.  ~Author Unknown

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.  ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893