Quotes About Determination

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you've gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way.

During 'Bullets Over Broadway,' there was a part where we performed the 'play within the play' facing upstage. It was me, Karen Ziemba, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Marin Mazzie. I don't think we got through it properly a single time.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

When people asked me, 'What are you going to do?' I'd say, 'I'm going to be an actor,' without really thinking about it. And I started acting without really thinking about it. I only thought about it properly a bit later.

They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.

The plan is to always start properly and execute a good race.

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.

I don't think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.

What I was doing wasn't good enough. It was good enough up until I met someone who was doing it properly - someone who was stronger than me and in better mental and physical condition than I was.

I came to Nashville in the early '90s, and I thought, 'OK, enough is enough. I write songs; I just don't have the backbone to show it to anybody. I want to go to Nashville and learn how to properly write a song.'

I don't think you can let comments affect you too much as then you are not doing your job properly.

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

Two birdies and a lot of bogeys doesn't really help. I say if you're going to do it, do it properly and be dreadful on all fronts.

If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

When I turned 30, six years ago, I decided to run the London Marathon and I did not even really train. I thought that it was not even that difficult. I completed it in 5hr 15min, I could have got closer to 4hr 30min if I had trained properly.

Trump's one consistent position is that he will stop at nothing to protect his properties and his profits.

I didn't come from a rich family. We had no money. And now living in all these lavish houses and property around the world, it's my choice. It's something that I've worked for.

Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for.

Bill Clinton had to propose to Hillary Rodham several times before she agreed to marry him and move to Arkansas.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won't stop the war, we will stop the government.