Quotes About Determination

Matthew Morrison

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

If I can't find anything good, I am just going to have to get my butt in gear and start learning how to do everything.

When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.

The Champions League is a very special one, as everyone switches one gear up.

I fought when you couldn't even buy MMA gear at your local sports store or whatever. We had to make it ourselves.

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.

My dad would talk to players like Claude Lemieux and Stephane Richer and tell them one day his son was going to play in the NHL. How many dads say the same thing? But, gee, he was right.

I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything - I've just got to get on with it.

I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

There are lots of people who say you are born an entrepreneur - you either have that gene or not. I really disagree with that.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

One Direction prove you can generate success from anything.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.