Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
You are the land. The land is you.
I can ski out of my back door.
I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
I just wanted to be an athlete.
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.