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Quotes About Determination

I'm not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn't have a road to the title.
~ Chael Sonnen
My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.
~ Chester Bennington
I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season.
~ Bo Schembechler
I want to prove myself and get in talks for a title shot. It's hard because people don't want to risk themselves against me.
~ Darren Till
When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.
~ Antonio Conte
If I win the title, I want to know I was the best guy that year, and to be the best, you've got to go against the best.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
I didn't beg for the title shot. I was the first guy to say I missed weight; I don't deserve it. So I wasn't sitting waiting for that phone call... whatever name they were going to say, I was going to say yes, let's do this.
~ Darren Till
The idea is to go out there and win in a dominant fashion. That changes people's minds, the way they're thinking about me, and lets people know I'm here to contend for a title.
~ Eddie Alvarez
When I was in Spain, I remember United being eight points ahead of City with only six games but they still lost that title. So in the Premier League, anything can happen. You never know because anything can happen whether you are in front or behind the opponent.
~ Ander Herrera
I had a very successful 2014, but I have got to keep aiming for bigger and better things, so the world title is my goal.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
I don't care who's in front of me; nobody is going to stop me from winning the world title.
~ Liam Smith
Every team can have a shot at the title, and we're seeing all of them as a potential threat. There's absolutely no feeling of entitlement to be at the front.
~ Toto Wolff
Soorma' means someone who does something that is impossible. It's the perfect title.
~ Diljit Dosanjh
If I win the Olympics in Rio, then I'll have each title in double.
~ Greg Rutherford
It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.
~ Callum Smith
I think of all my fights as title fights. I don't think about what can come up afterwards.
~ Cain Velasquez
Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?
~ George Thorogood
Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
~ Kim Yuna
For me, it's about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That's what I am, and that's what I intend to do.
~ Tyson Fury
After every fight, I knock myself down. I start from scratch again. I say, 'I'm not as good as I thought.' It makes you work harder. It makes you push harder. It's more than money. It's more than the title. It's my pride, and it can be scary thinking about it. I could lose. It's scary.
~ Gerry Cooney
Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.
~ Tyler Perry
Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.
~ Alistair Brownlee
I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title.
~ Greg Rutherford