Quotes About Determination

My first day on SmackDown, I believe I had a speaking segment, and I went out, and I decided if I was going to come in as an underwhelming draft pick, because let's be honest - I was. No one was really excited to have me, because I didn't do these amazing things in NXT! I decided to come in under the radar and kick down the door.

Avenging a loss to GSP, it's definitely on my radar.

It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.

Who's on my radar? I don't have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me. I don't go after them because I'm where they want to be.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

If the radio isnt working I will take it apart and put it back together again. I wont have mended it, but at least Ive had a bit of a poke around and thats usually good enough for me.

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

The world knows me as the Raging Bull.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

Third and 10 down by four at Lambeau Field in the drizzling rain... two minutes left. There's nothing like that.

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.