What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
Perseverance and perspective until victory.
How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.