Quotes About Determination

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

When I started on scout team, I wanted to be scout player of the week. So when I got that, it was, 'All right, what's the next goal?'

I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!

I've just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We're all athletes, and we're all trying to win no matter what it is, whether it's Scrabble or basketball.

If the beat feels like it don't make you move right, I scrap that and go to another track. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour to get one done.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

My mom, she's just a baller in the ring. My scrappy side and my aggressiveness are probably coming from her.

Ashley Wagner

I could start a fire from scratch.

When I'm in the ring and we're getting it on and people are screaming my name, it'll push me more.

I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

I couldn't change if I wanted to. I can't not go hard through screens and I can't not play on defense hard. It's just the way that I'm built and the way that I play.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.

At the end of the day, if you're living by fear, you're gonna get screwed in Hollywood.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

Scripts don't get movies made.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

I'm one that doesn't let the pressure or any of the outside kind of scrutiny, all those things, really get to me.

Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time.

I was only 26 when I started my career. Those days I only wanted to work. When my films did not work, I didn't know what to do. But I never went to anyone for work. Work came in search of me.