Quotes About Determination

When you are not having the best of moments in front of goal, just smash it down the middle.

I never let anyone tell me anything growing up and I knew I wanted to be a singer. I would say to every single person that entered my life, 'I'm going to be a singer, I'm going to be on billboards and I'm going to smash it!' You have to put it into the universe, you've got to be positive and not let anything hold you back.

I smashed my tailbone and couldn't sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was I wiped out!

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

I've smashed myself around, been on crutches, and broken a couple of bones when I was a kid.

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

I've been asked about the glass ceiling a lot, and I don't think of myself as some kind of crusader going around smashing glass. I don't feel like I had to - and that is a very, very strong flag showing the people around me made it, so I didn't have to.

There's something really fun about being a kicker. Once you get to 200 to go and you're still with those girls, you smell blood.

I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

I have a smile on my face because I am back on the pitch.

I'm a workhorse. I'll take anything and everything I can get, and I'll do it with a smile on my face.

The smile helps me keep a positive attitude and go on to the next play.

Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

'Try Again' - every time I hear that song, it just brings a smile to your face. When you're feeling like crap, and you hear, 'Dust yourself off and try again,' it kind of just puts you in a different mindset, 100 percent.

Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that. If I want something, I'm going to get it. When people tell me that I can't do something, it just motivates me more. For me, it makes me smile, because I just want to prove everybody wrong.

In the past, I tried to put on a brave face and smile after a defeat, but then it would backfire in training, and I'd get frustrated. Now I just embrace it, let it out, and then, two days later, I'm back in training and ready for the next game.

I don't know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, 'I'm going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I'm going to knock you out.' The times I go down and get back up - that's when I'm the most dangerous.

I always come on the ground with a smile on the face, but inside, I'm always ready to fight and try to give as much as I can.

Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.

There have been times in my career when people thought I was a pushover, especially as they saw me as this smiley guy.

When I get in the cage I am smiling because I am having fun.

When you see me at the show, I'm smiling because I want you to know I can do this all day.

The highs in my career have been overcoming the problems and smiling at them and getting on.