Quotes About Determination

You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

I might go play the LPGA full-time and then, after I get better, go to the PGA full-time. Or just try to play both. It will be fun.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don't wait for a convenient time. It can't be overemphasized.

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

Next time someone tells you 'never,' remember that means 'not for at least one hour.'

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.