Quotes About Determination

When I ski, I take both of my legs off and get into a sit ski: a ski with a custom seat that has been molded for me. I use my core and arms to propel myself on snow with help from ski poles.

I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.

I played on frozen pitches, on snow. I had only a couple of years indoor before I went to England.

Nobody wants to stay in Green Bay and run laps in the snow and go boxing in the gym. Everybody has what works for them, and I feel as though this works for me - it keeps me hungry, it keeps me with that edge. Other guys get a hard day's work in, but they're on the beach afterward.

It was never a thing that bothered me, being cold or if there's snow. It never fazed me.

I did a seminar once in Pennsylvania when there was big snow, road construction, a big flood and just one person showed up. I said, 'No problem, I'll do it.' If there's one or 100 on the mat, the juice is still there.

I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.

After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.

Snowboarding has really shaped the person I've become, and I consider every moment a good one because every one has led me to where I am now.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of'.

Skating has given me so many opportunities.

So many people get content. So many people stop when they're at the top. They'll let someone take their place because they're relaxing. That's not going to happen.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.

I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour and celebrity of acting, and a lot of actors start acting when they are 9 or 10 years old - so young. I started when I was about 24.

I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

There are so many people telling you no, but if you love what you do, no one can stop you.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.