Quotes About Determination

I'm not made of glass.

I actually had huge problems with my glasses steaming up all the time. I had to train very carefully around the limitations caused by wearing them.

When I was playing, wearing glasses was second nature to me. It was an accepted part of life.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

My 'Glee' experience taught me - to a certain degree - not to listen too much to fan backlash, at least to negative things. Once you have the job, you have the job, and you've got to do it.

Some days it seems I've done as much as I can here and I think I'll go and try my luck in America. But then a call comes from the Globe theatre. They want me for King Lear, playing Edmund.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

I love watching the N.Y.C. Marathon - it might even be the best day of the year. I'm already in a true romance with the Big Apple, but the determination, spirit, sport, and glory that are all in full force on race day make it a true standout.

You can get glory days, bad days but the most important thing is to just keep your head down and keep working because at the end of it all if you work hard everything is going to be fine.

I want to be a champion and I want to be No. 1 in the world again because I know the taste of glory and the taste of being on top of the world.

I always want to play, and I always want to hold a ball or glove or bat.

As soon as I put on gloves, I knew. I felt heart and determination. It's in you, not on you. I just loved to fight and I knew that it was going to take me where I needed to go. I never had any doubt.

I drop the gloves once in a while.

I fought when most of the time we didn't even wear gloves.

Sometimes we have to sell UFC clothes, backpack, gloves, stuff like that, to make some extra money to finish a camp. It's quite difficult, but we go on.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

If you deserve it, go get it.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

Deep down, you know what you want, and you should go for it.

There have been a couple of times I've started the song in the wrong key. We stop the song, we all laugh together and we start the song again, and we go for it.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

Embrace the fear and go for it. That's what I do. I don't run from it - I embrace the fear.

I just say go for it and be yourself, even if you're scared or nervous, because you'll never know what happens if you don't try.