Quotes About Determination

I don't think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

I'm always hungry. I can be better always.

I need to have emotion to play. Emotion makes me hungry. I must prove every game that I am still strong.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

We need to always stay hungry. When we lose the ball, get it back quickly.

I'm just hungry to win.

If I'm stone-cold crazy because I have a hard time going to sleep at night because we have kids that go to bed hungry, then I'll be stone-cold crazy, and I'm OK with that.

I'm always hungry to score.

I am hungry, I want to achieve something with Chelsea.

I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

I like the cut of his jib and the glint in his eye, the arrow of his song and the beg of his question.

I knew you could do it, I knew you could, Libby, she mumbled into my hair, warm and smoky. Do what? Try just a little harder.

But I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong. It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue.

I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.

Nothing to it but to do it.

I really wanted the book to make money, in an obsessive childish way—that feeling that if I wanted it enough, it should happen. It should happen.

You always take the extra step that others don't, that's who you are.

Today I like my first ladies with a little bite.

I know I am right not to settle

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

But one day I will wear him down, I will catch him off guard, and he will lose the energy for the nightly battle, and he will get in bed with me. In the middle of the night, I'll turn to face him and press myself against him. I'll hold myself to him like a climbing, coiling vine until I have invaded every part of him and made him mine.