Quotes About Determination

So I've definitely had a crazy career, but I'm starting to put it together and starting to take my time and know that I can really do some damage if I just slow down just a little bit.

I think I have just as much talent as anybody when it comes to the 100 or 200.

I want to win just as much as anybody else does.

If I were Elizabeth Sloane, I wouldn't be wearing makeup. I'd just be focused on getting the job done.

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

Why can't I just be a running back?

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.

I want challenges. I want to compete. I don't want it to always be easy. I don't want it to always just be a few of us girls. I want there to be competition.

I would very much like to direct, star, perform, and just be a general auteur.

I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.

If you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

I think that people can have their hand in as many different things as they want. You've just got to put your mind to it and just do it.

I never really sat down and decided, 'And now this is what I'm going to do.' I just do it.

If I want to do something like the Batman mask, I just do it. I was like this all the time; I think nobody can change me.

If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly.

With Daphne, there was a huge part of me going, This is my dream job, literally my dream role, but there's no way I'm going to get it. So I may as well just do it how I want to do it, and not think about anyone else.' That was quite a good thing.

I don't like talking about climbing that much. You don't have to discuss; just do it.