Quotes About Determination

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

If you get a career-threatening injury your career is done and you need something to fall back on. But if it wasn't for football I would have played rugby, if it wasn't rugby it would have been basketball and I would have just gone through all the sports.

Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in.

No matter what the circumstances are in our business - travel, politics, injury - you got to be in the game. And to be in the game, you got to work hard, and you have to know your craft.

Anytime an athlete deals with an injury, it forces you to revaluate and refocus.

The initial thought is like, 'Damn. Most guys used to retire after the Achilles injury.' Nobody really but Dominique Wilkins has come back to be the same person as he used to be or better; but now, more and more guys come back and they're healthy.

I had that small injury on my ankle, but I know that I am not playing like I used to play and like I have to play. So I have to keep working and try to play much better.

You're one step away, you're one injury away, a couple of training sessions away from getting that No. 1 shirt, so there are how many ways you must look at it.

I had an injury that just dug away at me. I would spend every track session crying, attempting to run and breaking down when I couldn't.

I wasn't feeling well when I fought Joanna. I couldn't train the last few weeks because of a shoulder injury. I couldn't hold Joanna down.

I've been through things in life that are way worse than a foot injury.

If I avoid injury, who knows how long I can go?

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

I've got that personality where I've always been determined. As a dancer, I was constantly improving and perfecting. I guess it's innate.

I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.

If you say 'I can't,' you'd better add on 'yet.' Once you start to change that inner dialogue, things that would seem completely impossible become possible.

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn't really know: an inner fighter in me.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Your little Obama voice: 'Yes you can.' Listen to your inner Obama-voice.

If you're not playing with any confidence, then you're not going to play well at all. You've always got to have that inner confidence, and that comes with the goals.

You need a certain amount of inner aggression, a bit of anger about you and the others in order to give your maximum.

I even love getting older, and knowing maybe I can't do one thing as well, but then trying to figure out how to do something else. That inner drive, I have it every day.

Big, historic football clubs have the ability to come back, even when everything seems lost. There is a strong inner belief within every player and also the fans.