Quotes About Determination

It's kind of like, I'm just a guard.

My whole life, I've guarded guys bigger than me.

Goal of mine is to make first team All-Defense. The way you do that is guarding the best players.

I've got the mind-set that I'm going to play as hard as I can, and I'm going to make the person guarding me work as hard as he can.

When I go on the basketball court, I don't think about who's guarding me.

2015 was an interesting year for me. After finally getting back behind the camera at the end of the summer to shoot the CW's 'Arrow,' I found myself a couple of months later in a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, trying to convince half a dozen security guards to let me make my EEOC appointment despite my expired driver's license.

I don't care who guards him. He's still going to be Anthony Davis.

I want to be one of the best point guards to ever play.

There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I've had a sense of self-determination and strength that have carried me through. Hopefully I can bring that into my work and guide other people to do the same.

For me, doing all the TV stuff and having the experience directing, knowing what you want to make is 90% of it. The rest of it is just guiding everybody on that one path. But, figuring out the path is the difficult part.

If the charge against me is that I fight to win, and I'm intense, then I'm guilty.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.

I'm always happy to listen, always happy to consider what the community wants. But there are also times when you make a decision, you stick by your guns because you know it's in the best interests of the community.

It doesn't mean much to me if I'm behind or not in a fight; the fact is that I hold these guns in my right and left hands.