Quotes About Determination

I would never crawl into a secret space to avoid the frustrating things.

It's frustrating when teams try to take me out. But there's a lot of other ways to win besides shooting.

It was frustrating when the managers would change; you'd go to the bench and try to work your way back into the team. But it makes you stronger.

Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

When you're losing, and you're losing again, and you're losing 3... 4... 5 games in a row, it can be frustrating.

Most of the balls that I've dropped have been from a result of trying to run before I actually catch the ball. It's frustrating. I just have to go and fix them.

Punting the ball is really frustrating to me.

I love to play the game of basketball so to sit there and not be able to play, it gets kind of frustrating.

I like to be good at what I do. It's frustrating when I'm not. But if I get an idea in my head, you better not try to stop me, because that is just going to push me harder.

Talent is not enough. It's a mental game. You have to deal with frustration when you don't play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses.

Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.

When I'm disappointed in myself, that frustration comes out a little bit. I don't let it affect my game, but it's something I can definitely work on.

At times, I thought of leaving filmmaking because of the pressure and frustration 'Adhugo' had put on me.

There's nothing like adversity to fuel the fire.

Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.

Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'

Criticism's healthy. It gives you that extra little bit inside you to prove people wrong, to use it as energy, to use it as fuel.

I love adding fuel to my fire and trying to prove I can play.

I enjoy that competition. All that does is light a fire under me, and once that happens I start to get hot whether it's verbally or physically, but it's actually good fuel.

For me, when you're going in the late rounds you just always have that chip on your shoulder. At the end of the day, every team that didn't draft me - including the team that took me 203rd - everybody passed me a few times. And, for me, that kind of fueled me over the years.

I like looking at the negative stuff. Because it fuels me. It lights a fire that's going to be burning for a long time.

I think any time you get a boost of confidence, it fuels you to do more, and that kept happening for me.

What fuels me? I would like to be the best to ever play the game.