Quotes About Determination

I knew my chances of playing beyond college were extremely slim. You just don't see too many 5-foot-10 quarterbacks out there.

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

I never let myself forget that our rivals are waiting for us to slip up and feed their hope of catching us.

Getting that first foot on the rung of the ladder, that's where you find it easier to shrug off those times when your foot slips off, and you have to get yourself going again.

You don't want to let your form slip because it can be hard to get back from that.

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.

You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

I ran my first campaign when I was 11. My slogan was 'Vote McVey, vote the right way.' I've never surpassed it!

It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.

Even when 'Kaakha Kaakha' was released, there were people who gave it an average rating and said they couldn't figure out what was happening. Three days after its release, the producer called me and asked me to remove all of Jothika's scenes from the film. I told him; in that case, you can also remove my name from the director's slot.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.

I've dealt with adversity before, had injuries before. I didn't let that slow me down. It just changed my attitude about the game.