Quotes About Determination

You start off slowly, getting 'better and 'better, getting that confidence in yourself. It brought that out of me which I had inside but, you know, didn't want to express it - but as a captain you have to.

I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.

When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.

I definitely wasn't anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Being able to rely on the matches I've won - at first they surprised me - but I've slowly been able to build confidence.

People wrote me off when I joined the industry, my looks were criticised, my acting was slammed, my films didn't do well. These things changed only slowly, and after a struggle.

I slowly began to develop an interest in the game. I owe my success to my family. Had it not been for my father and my brother, I would not have been so closely associated with cricket.

I love to run and do it every day. I run slowly, by the way.

Slowly, step-by-step, I will reach my goals and my dreams.

I want to have a long career, so I'm fine with it growing slowly.

I almost stopped playing. For three or four years it was really tough mentally. 'Then slowly, slowly, slowly... my team told me to keep going.

When I was 18, I moved out of home. I decided to try to be an actor, so took myself off to slum it with nine humans and a million mice in a red Leytonstone house.

High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

Every team goes through a slump during the season. It's just a matter of how fast can you get out of it.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

Everyone in their career is going to go through a slump, but the thing is how you react to it. You're either going to talk about it or you're going to try to shoot your way out of it and I'm going to try to shoot my way out of it.

Slumps don't bother me.

I have been in slumps before where I've never lost confidence in myself.

On the practice green, I hit a lot of four-footers with my right hand only. But whatever grip I'm using, you can bet I'm feeling good about it. Otherwise, I'd change. That's how I avoid slumps.

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

You won't get out of a slump if you don't shoot.

My role model is Sly Stallone.

I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.