Quotes About Determination

You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

My grandmother raised her nine kids and raised my mom's three.

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

My entire life, my grandmother told me I could do whatever I set my mind to.

I remember my grandmother used to always say, 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket.' But when I realized that music was inside of me, I decided I'm putting all my eggs in one basket.

I've said this before, I would fight my grandmother if I had to. And she's dead.

My grandparents and my parents came over from Cuba with nothing to their name just for a chance of freedom and opportunity.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents - we're used to things not going our way.

I got a granite chin.

And dreams are not granted or given - they come with a price. No matter what your goal, you're bound to face adversity, and it's during that adversity, when you find out what your made of.

I don't take anything for granted. There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them.

Sometimes a 1-yard gain on third-and-1 is a big play. People take that for granted.

I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.

I just think that my road has been so difficult to get where I'm at that I don't take anything for granted.

I'm not taking anything for granted at all.

I don't take anybody for granted, but I see myself beating each and every fighter that I face.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

I know that my grappling is up there with any grappler in the division.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

Somebody showed me a fight where somebody had gotten cut on the forehead and was just gushing blood and kept going throughout the fight. I couldn't grasp the concept that anybody would want to do that.

Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.