Quotes About Determination

I'm just a small guy.

I know there's a lot of guys would love to see me fail.

It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.

It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

All the hard work starts in the gym.

I am first one in the gym, I do cardio before I have breakfast, and I am training hard every day.

I'd really like to be a gymnast and be super flexible.

Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

I have a habit of perfecting my shots, so after I give a shot I never crib about it.

I don't know what a losing habit is.

I try not to make a habit of spending the whole year losing in the first rounds of events, but tennis is one of those sports where nothing is guaranteed.

There are coaches with habits you don't like, and you tell yourself, 'I don't want to be like that.' But there's no one way to success.

As an athlete, I'm always thinking about habits and goals and how to achieve the things I want to achieve.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.