Quotes About Determination

I'm a football player and I have respect for every opponent, every defender and every team, but I'm not afraid of anyone and I'm not afraid to take them on and to make things happen.

One of my heroes growing up was Darren Gough, he always made things happen and I wanted to be like him.

I am strong minded, a believer that you can make things happen if you really want it that badly.

Really, the scheme is not going to win you a possession or even a game. You have to burn some calories and make some things happen.

Everything is pretty good in my life, and like everybody else, things happen, and you put your head down and solve challenges.

Even when bad things happen, you always want to move forward.

You have to challenge yourself and things happen from there.

I'm in the NBA and I won a championship. I had some great things happen, but I'm not satisfied.

In life a lot of things happen, you have to just learn to ignore them.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I don't think limits.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I am a film person and hence I think big.

We think big and we dream big.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.

As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'