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"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
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"Before giving up, try hard."
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Personal Development
"Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner."
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Personal Development
"All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking."
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Personal Development
"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"
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"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."
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"Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success."
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"Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!"
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"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
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"With patience, you will finish the race set before you."
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"For some, putting in the time or work to be prepared and live deliberately is natural. For others? It's work. However, as in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
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"The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it."
Being
"My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m."
Thought
"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way."
Home
"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."
Work
"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability."
Age
"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
Persistence
"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."
Effort
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