Quotes About Determination

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

I'm obsessed with this sport. I'm obsessed with getting better. I'm obsessed with winning. Losing's part of it. It challenges you to grow.

I'm really focused on getting better as a player.

Players are getting better at a younger age. It shows how fearless everyone is becoming.

I held off on having kids and getting married so I could fight. I gave my life to this.

You can't do an awful lot about getting older but you shouldn't let it stop you from doing what you want to do.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'

I know I'm small. But I don't feel small sometimes. I feel like a giant sometimes.

I've watched people in these movies like Bradley Cooper in 'Yes Man' become these giant stars themselves.

I always want to take on the giants.

I'm a small guy slaying giants and I'll keep doing so.

As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

The Rock had the amazing athletic abilities that few people are gifted with, but he also had the burning desire to be the best, and none of that can be denied.

I never thought I was academically gifted at school. But when I started flying, I found you didn't need an academic mind - you just needed determination and dedication.

I don't get things gifted to me.

God helps those who help themselves. You have blessings. You have gifts. You have passion. You have drive. Get after it; go in there and do something. Try and make every day count.

For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'

You gig and gig and wonder what your first Edinburgh show will be like, if people will like it, and when they do, it just feels like it validates the last few years of your life, and that you're on the right track.

There are a million reasons why I might not do well at a gig. But none of them are because I'm a woman.

I didn't really gig my way in. I was just in my bedroom writing songs for so long.