Quotes About Determination

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.

One thing I don't do is quit.

Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don't want to act like I'm all that unique. America's full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don't quit.

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.

When I was 15, I decided to take up the sport seriously, so I went down to the Y.M.C.A. My first day there, this little Italian guy beat my brains out. I decided to quit. Then I realized I really wanted to be a fighter. I worked at it, went back, and that little Italian guy didn't beat me up no more.

I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focus on fighting. I didn't want to just get deployed. I wanted to get in on the action.

I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it.

I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

Fighting, especially at this level, is about getting through adversity. You position yourself mentally to go out and take on obstacles that stand in your way. In the Octagon and in life, you face tough situations and have every chance to quit, but the more adversity you push through, the more likely you are to be successful.

I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.

It's easy to quit. It's easy to not get something that you want and just say, 'Well, that didn't work out,' and move on to the next thing.

I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.

When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.'

I never quit hustling.

You cannot imagine how many people called, how many letters, how many emails. Every place I go, people ask me, 'Please, don't quit.'

I'm going to quit when I feel like I'm not having fun anymore or I'm not competitive.

It's hard for an athlete to quit what he's done his whole life.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn't quit. When I say 'quit,' I mean you wake up, you go to the piano, you go to whatever instrument, and you work at learning how to tell the truth.

I was raised, right or wrong, you make a decision and you don't quit. You fight your way through it; that's what you did.

My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.