Quotes About Determination

We yelled, mostly, but bad enough that you wanted to fight. That's how we became winners. We fought each other. When you did something wrong, we'd tell you about it.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

You want to be winners.

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.

We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

If you've got a regular feed of winners, you control your mind to do it. It becomes a must. If you didn't have that regular flow of winning, whether you could get yourself to do that, I don't know. It's a lot easier when you know the next day you can win and you can win and win, it's worth doing it.

No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.

I've ridden 3,651 winners, if that's any good to you. I don't count the falls. I count the winners.

Our style of play is non-negotiable, but we also have to become ruthless serial winners.

I learnt that as soon as you have a negative thought, just push it to the back of your mind. The question is, when it's you versus 11 others; can you be positive under pressure? That's what defines winners.

I think if you can find competitive people, they'll make any environment that they go to winners.

Rankings aren't that important to me. I want a winners' medal.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

Every fight is a must-win because we are winners.

Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.

Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says 'OK, I've done this before. I got it, let's just keep doing what we're doing.'