Quotes About Determination

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

It's not the way I threw the football - it's not particular games that I won - but that they remember that here's a guy that believed, that worked hard. Although things didn't always go in his favor, he continued to press through, and with his faith in himself and his faith in God, he was able to accomplish great things.

Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.

Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.

I remember the days beginning at sixteen, seventeen years old in Girls Aloud. Nobody knew us, nobody cared. We'd do university shows and people threw beers cans at us. All sorts of crazy things! We had to work really hard to get where we did.

I was sparring with Dan Christison, a big heavyweight. I threw a leg kick and broke my fibula. Before the Florian training camp.

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

Competitive spirit is a driving force that keeps life going with a thrill.

As a former college athlete, I know the importance of sports in the lives of women and girls, and I couldn't be more thrilled to join forces with NWSL and U.S. Soccer to ensure professional women athletes are elevated as the entire country can watch and be inspired by their strength and athleticism.

Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.

It's so thrilling to be intimidated.

For the first time in long time, I can say I love what I do. I can't say that every day is easy or fun, but there are few greater thrills in life than hurling yourself down an iced-over water slide in a carbon fiber bathtub.

I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.

I think I thrive under pressure.

Under pressure is something I thrive on.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

I thrive under pressure.

I thrive on the pressure. I love it. I love the fear factor that goes with it. Perhaps it's strange, but that's just me.

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

I definitely thrive off adversity. I know it's always up from there.