Quotes About Determination

When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

I never had any expectations. When I was 11, I just wanted to play for England. I didn't know when it would happen, how it would happen. I picked that dream, and I wanted that dream.

It was while I was in the mental hospital that I got my letter from the British Olympic Association saying, 'Congratulations. You've been picked to go to the Olympic Games.' I kept stressing I wasn't a patient.

I never picked an opponent.

I told Gamboa he picked the wrong fighter and the wrong city, and I was right. I never felt any danger in the fight.

I don't like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.

When I was growing up, the honor role kids were picked on by the jocks. And those kids said, 'You know, 15 years from now, I'm going to be their boss and own them.'

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.

I have to back myself and think if I'm big enough to be picked by Everton and exposed in that situation, then I'm old enough to take whatever comes with it. That's the way I kind of see it.

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

Look at Willis McGahee. Perfect example. Totally shredded knee. Comes back and gets picked in the first round. It's pretty hard to have a career-ender, unless I have a neck thing. But either way, I know I'm insured.

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.

It's a really hard decision, picking my second single.

I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.