How many coaches, players, and/or teams are close to a breakthrough -- in a game, in a season, in a career -- but quit because they don't realize it. So many times failure comes only because someone has quit -- when all they needed was to persevere. Here is a true story about R.U. Darby:
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance."
-H. Jackson Brown
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
-Walter Elliott
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."
-Calvin Coolidge
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
-John D. Rockefeller
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
-Conrad Hilton
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!"
-Richard M. Devos
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
-Admiral Hyman Rickover
"For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again."
-Proverbs 24:16
