Quotes About Determination

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!

A different type of human has to play that sport. Hockey players keep fighting - nobody cares what's wrong with you, as long as you have one foot to skate on, you keep playing.

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?

I can't skateboard. I don't know how to do that!

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

I learned from BMX and skateboarding how to take a fall.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

Skateboarding is something that I've loved ever since I started when I was five years old.

I dreamed of being a professional skater once. I wanted to be a Korean Olympic skater, but I wasn't good enough, so I quit.

I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation.

Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps.

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

At the end of the day, I could go back to getting sixth or seventh place and being a mediocre skater, or I could be a champion. I want to be a champion.

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

I have always believed that I am an amazing skater regardless of what the results say, and I think that determination and confidence has kept me in the game so long.

I have always believed that I've been an amazing skater regardless of what the results say.