Quotes About Determination

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

I thought I had the potential to be a better fighter than I'd ever be a football player. Besides, it was something my father always wanted me to do. He told me since I was a little kid I was a born fighter.

I just love sports: basketball, baseball, football. As a kid I did it all. But in my heart, I'm a football player. There's nothing like it. It's what I live for. Ever since I could walk, I've been drawn to it.

It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.

You don't have to sell the fact that a football player has toughness.

Neymar is not just a football player, he is not afraid and always responds to provocations.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.

I was born a football player and I love this game.

If you don't have ambitions then you're not a football player.

But I look at Anquan Boldin the same. If you watch us, we're similar players. We're not the fastest, we're not the biggest, but we get it done. I think we're just football players.

I'm a footballer through and through. It's all I've ever wanted to be.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

I was born a footballer. Before I could walk, I was chasing balls.

The teacher would say, 'Not everybody makes it as a footballer, so what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' The teacher would say, 'But not everybody makes it. So what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' Every year that happened! Nothing was going to get in the way of me being a footballer.

As a footballer, everything you've achieved can easily be lost, and then you are nobody. That's just how life is, and that's why you shouldn't let things get you down. That's the reason I treat every match like a final.

I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.

I don't call myself a women's footballer; I say I'm a footballer.

I didn't think I was going to make it as a footballer.

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

When my career is over, I want to say to myself that I've done whatever I could to be the best footballer I could be.

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

I was determined to become a footballer, not only because I loved the game but so I could provide for my family.