Quotes About Determination

I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.

If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.