Quotes About Determination

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

When my back's against the wall, I need to rise to the occasion.

When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.

I don't want the belt, I want Michael Chandler's head.

I want to become the champion and hold that belt. I don't want to just win a fight and then lose it in my next fight.

I don't really care about people who are ranked below me or whatever. I just want the belt. If other people are calling me out, that's OK. That's on them.

At one point, I had 10 UFC fights under my belt. But at the same time, I had no money and no house to live in.

At the end of the day, I am going for all the belts, so I am going to have to go through all of them. And I would live to fight the U.K. guys - even in the U.K.

Anybody with belts, I'm coming from you.

I know I can win title belts.

I wouldn't go to a club just to stay on the subs' bench.

I've played almost 22 years in the major leagues, and I've never sat on the bench.

I do not want to be sitting on the bench.

You don't want to stay on the bench. You want to play every game.

It is difficult for me to accept that I only sit on the bench in the league.