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Quotes About Determination

Make the goal huge and you cannot miss!
~ Stephen Richards
You put yourself where you are, and if you find yourself unsatisfied with how you are, then get yourself out of it.
~ Stephen Richards
How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have.
~ Stephen Richards
Think big or die small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~ Stephen Richards
Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true.
~ Stephen Richards
Let's make just a few more steps and secure success forever.
~ Stephen Richards
If you want to make dough, do a bun dance.
~ Stephen Richards
A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done.
~ Stephen Richards
Fuck the rabbit, eat it and go after a lion.
~ Stephen Richards
Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success.
~ Stephen Richards
If you want to be an action person be proactive rather than reactive...
~ Stephen Richards
When you believe in yourself with a passion then success can be spontaneous.
~ Stephen Richards
There's just no comparison between these hard men, some fight with their bare hands, some with their brains and some with weapons. Some have a sixth sense for survival, avoiding death with catlike ease. I don't include any world champ at this or that, but I do include men that would wipe the floor with any world champion at anything you wanted to throw at them.
~ Stephen Richards
My first sparring session with him saw him bullying me around the ring, so I thought fuck this, and when he came back in close, I threw the boxing code of conduct out of the window and hit him with a cracking right hand in to the balls! That sapped the energy out of him and that was the end of that. In the end, I could take anything he threw at me and then I'd come back with mine, which he didn't like and people would comment on how much I'd 'come on'.
~ Stephen Richards
Successful people got to where they did because they did something, and all successful endeavors exist because of those who acted.
~ Stephen Richards
I will not go into detail but the screw put up a little bit of a resistance, fair play to him, but we were so desperate for the drugs in her medical bag that nothing was going to stop us getting at them. That is what happened, we got the bag of drugs from her hand. I can tell you, we were like two tramps round a bag of chips in a bin.
~ Stephen Richards
So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant.
~ Stephen Richards
With a clear idea of what you want in life, you need to actively pursue your dream. Half-hearted attempts will not work.
~ Stephen Richards
I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand… an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.
~ Stephen Richards
The crowd started cheering as soon as they seen him, he was one of them, a local lad from Lancashire. In the first round, I tried to put him away but my punches had nothing in them, I might as well as been hitting thin air. It was then that I knew I had to really dig deep if I wanted to hear the final bell; I threw a clever little corkscrew right. A great shot, but ineffective unless it hits with some vigour, which it didn't!
~ Stephen Richards
Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference.
~ Stephen Richards
The crowd were totally behind him and it spurred him on, I was right in the heat of battle. There was only one to win; I dug deep and summoned up every bit of strength, I had in me to put in to one punch to see if I could hit the jackpot. I drew him to the ropes and put everything in to a cracking right uppercut and just missed, bastard!
~ Stephen Richards
Always stay strong to your dream because when you lose sight of it then that is when your dream dies!
~ Stephen Richards
To secure victory, first you have to dare to do so.
~ Stephen Richards