Quotes About Determination

This game is very humbling and you have to take it one pitch at a time, one day at a time and compete.

At Inter, I was the best-paid player in the world. But it's not a question of money, because when I go out onto the pitch, I only have one thing in mind - winning.

When I'm on the pitch, I just want to give as good a performance as possible.

A goal kind of determines how happy I am with my performance and if I have helped the team, so, yes, scoring goals is what I aim to do every time I step on the pitch.

Once we are on that pitch, the main thing is getting that win.

People don't see the determination behind getting on the pitch every week.

If I am on the pitch I'm very calm because I know I've done everything to be there. That's the way to be and the way I'll feel until the last day of my career.

My mindset's just focused on looking forward, bettering myself, getting on the pitch, on the training pitch, doing what I can do to improve myself.

When I get on that pitch, I want to make an impact. That's all I can say.

I don't fear hostile atmospheres. In fact, that added pressure serves as an incentive for me to give my very best performance on the pitch.

The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.

I always learnt that to play well, you have to train hard, so every time I go on the training pitch, I try to give my best and to improve.

My job is to go on the pitch and put my best foot forward.

If a footballer goes on the pitch with the right mentality, he will perform well.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

I don't remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.

I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall or little house.

Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.