Quotes About Determination

The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.

My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.

Don't play tennis. Do something you love and enjoy because it's a grind and it's a tough, tough, tough life. My position, I'm trapped. I have to do it.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

People trash talk me.

Getting in my head and talking trash, that's not going to work.

When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

When I put my helmet on, I'm ultra competitive, talking trash.

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'.

I trash talk all the time.

I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.

With MJ and Kobe, what you get is you get people who is talking trash to you and backing it up.

Even in practice, me and Kobe get into it every day. I do my best to challenge him. He's still going to be Kobe, talking trash.

I don't want to talk trash about somebody: I want to prove it inside the cage.

There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.

When I was talking a lot of trash, a lot of the guys knew that when I started getting serious was when I started getting a little bit quieter. If I started locking up somebody, then I'd start talking even more and I'd talk more aggressive. But once I stopped, they knew I was really serious.

I'm not a trash talker, I like to do all my talking with my fists in the ring.

Of course, we're going to talk trash or whatever. Both teams just want to win the game.

As actors we keep on hoping to get that one good role, but at times we have to go through a lot of trash to get there.

I didn't have any money. I used to try to take out people's trash and sweep the floor to make ends meet.