Quotes About Determination

I love playing baseball, and I always promised myself, if I had the chance, that I would work as hard as I could to be the best player I could possibly be.

When I was in third grade, I promised my mom that I would get her a pink Cadillac Escalade.

I have promised my mum that I am going to get a degree even if I turn 50.

I have to deliver the results I promised because, as the first Hispanic female governor, I'm going to pave a path of some kind. I want it to be one that little Hispanic girls will want to follow.

I'd promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, 'I can't let her down.'

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

I promised my mum that if something did happen to her, although I never thought anything would, I told her that I wouldn't give up on acting until I got my Oscar. This was her dream for me.

I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.

I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.

Nothing's promised. You got to go out there and earn it.

I promised my mother that I'd be a famous footballer one day after seeing players such as Croatia's Davor Suker and Serbia's Predrag Mijatovic shine in France.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

Didn't get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

With Swansea the aim is to get promoted and I'm going to try everything I can to help the team get there.

For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.

If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I've never knocked back an opponent in my life.

I just work hard and do what I've got to do and let my promoters and matchmakers handle that part. I basically tell them to get the guy that has the best record that wants to fight.

You go real long in this business, and then you have these light-bulb moments. I just had this fleeting moment of fearlessness and a moment of trust in myself that I'm not going to listen to anyone. I'm going to do it how I want to do it. And how I want to do is what people are going to want to see and promoters want to pay for.

I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.

I can excel in any situation, and like I've said, I'm not pro-WWE or anti-ECW - I'm pro-Edge. I don't care about promotions; I care about myself, plain and simple.

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I'll beat them.

You can't just coast along. You need to be extraordinary. If you want a promotion or a raise, ask yourself, 'How can I behave in a way to get my boss to believe I deserve one?'