Quotes About Determination

I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.

Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

I did not know about awards. I just wanted to break the world record and the Olympic record.

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.

It ain't over till it's over.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.

I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

There is mental as well as physical fatigue. You have to cry, scream, keep on repeating the same dialogue till you get it right.

Every night, I will write until I'm done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can't see the computer screen anymore, till I finish the script, till I get to the point where I'm happy stopping, till I get everything off my plate, because I hate going to bed with a full plate. It makes me very neurotic.

I started acting when I was seven, and I didn't get my first role till I was nine. So for two years, I was just auditioning.

I am okay with losing, but I wont give up and fight till the end.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

You have to fight till the last minute of the last game if you want to win it.

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.