Quotes About Determination

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?'

I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

I'm all about leaving a legacy behind and trying to cement myself as one of the greats. I don't just want to be remembered as the guy who beat Michael Phelps at the 2012 London Olympics - a one-hit wonder - I want to be an inspiration to the kids.

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

Something I've learned is that when people tell me I can't do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.

People wonder what you are going to do after you've won the Champions League three times? Win it again, if I can.

No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.

People think that you're gonna come out, be a one hit wonder, and finished. You gotta prove 'em wrong.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

I remember when I read in the news that 'Wonder Woman' had been cast, and my heart sank. I had been talking to the studio for so long about doing it, and I was like, 'Well, 'that's that.' I'm sure we wouldn't have made the same choice.