Quotes About Determination

If I hope for four or five sacks, and I only get two or three, that's still a good week for me, so I gotta go out there with those high hopes, those high expectations, and try to achieve them.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

I've got enough people hoping I'll fail that I need to be smart with my business.

I've spent a number of years hoping and wanting to get somewhere, where an organization is willing to do whatever it takes to win because it's not like that everywhere.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

It's like, you're being given a great opportunity, so take the bull by the horns, do your work and come in here and perform.

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

I was a horrible athlete.

My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

I've got a horrible bastard side. I get to let it go every time I go in the gym.

When I was younger, I had a horrible flight. Horrible. It was well before I was 10 years old. So I always thought to myself, 'I know I don't want to travel.' That's why I wanted to be a session guy, because I knew I could still play guitar and make a living at it - hopefully.

All great films have stories attached to them of how horrific they were to get made.

Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.

I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.