Quotes About Determination

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

pound for pound, the best one of the bunch, a fighter, scratcher, pit bull, she can nail 'em to the floor in one second flat, her body's beautiful, but her mind's a work of art, whirling madly, twisting and turning, she's a REAL woman and she won't let you forget it

sweat streaming killing hard in over kill i wake up screaming there's nothing to be done but go at it again

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

The key to success as an entrepreneur is finding an opportunity, and when you find it, executing like crazy.

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives. It's about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

it doesn't matter what the challenge is -athletics, business, romance, health, academics, the arts- the rule for getting up is the same. you just get up!

The path to victory is the path you're on. It becomes a path to victory the moment you decide it does.

We're all dealt a different hand in this life. I don't know what hand you were dealt. But I know that the only thing we can do with our hand is play it—no bluffing. You can make the choice. You can either waste the opportunities you've been given, waste away in your regrets and failures, waste your gift, waste your time and energy and effort, and wait for your participation ribbon. Or you can choose to finish first. Which will you choose?

The greatest indicator of success is longevity, and longevity is only achieved by taking small, meaningful, consistent steps in the same direction.

Look around. Pay attention to the stories of people who are finishing first. Then realize that all of your excuses are just that—excuses. Ask what has worked for others and how you can make it work for you, too. Ask yourself how you can leverage your unique skills and strengths to accomplish the unthinkable.

Not only should we expect lots and lots of failure, but we should also be grateful when it shows up because it means we are on the right track. Failure is a mile marker on the pathway to finishing first.

I don't know of any skater in the history of skating who fell down and just stayed there.

We give our critics so much power, when the truth is that all the power is inside of us. Who cares what a critic says or doesn't say? You have the power to say, "Not true," or "I will prove you wrong," or "No thank you, delete.

Anything that will keep you from your own ability to be successful is sabotage—procrastinating, drinking too much, not eating healthfully, showing up late, phoning it in, even just ignoring the instruction of your coach (or boss or teacher). This is all self-sabotage. When will you stop making decisions that are bad for you? When you decide you're ready to win.

When the sky's falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

I don't need to be reminded that we're up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we're the gods-damned sharks.

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

Key, crown, child," he muttered. "Well, fuck you, Patience. Three things must you kiss before I let you spook me for good. My boots, my balls, and my ass.

Have you considered extreme, desperate measures like talking to her again?" "Yeah, but, well..." "You've yeah-but your way to this point," said Jean. "You're going to yeah-but this mess until it's time to go home, and I don't doubt you'll yeah-but her out of your life. Quit circling at a distance. Go talk to her, for Preva's sake.

Get serious about telling me where that money is," said Conté, "or I'll kick your ass so hard every piece of shit that falls out of it for the rest of your life will have my gods-damned heel print on it.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.