Quotes About Determination

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

Never, Never, Never Say NEVER

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

More than anything, he wanted them to know that even though they would grow up never knowing their father, it was not for the lack of his love for them. No, it was because he loved them so, because he was determined they have the life they deserved, that he had given everything to help secure it for them. That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from them.

You can stand there defeated, or deal with those elements within your control and move on. Which makes more sense?

of one California Highway Patrol officer quoted in the book, "It's sheer numbers.… You've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

When one has no power, one will seek hope from any source.

Persistent, Mike thought. Mark of those who succeed. Indeed, it was the mark of something, but not success. It was refusing to hear "no," a clear signal of trouble in any context. Forty

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Brett McLaughlin

This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore

What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one.

Rules for making the world: 1. Stand up & do the thing you see needs doing. 2. That's it. (If it was easy, we'd be having a different conversation.) —Action Plan

Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing

All those times I wanted to quit, slip out through the escape hatch and disappear without a trace. But you weren't having it, no, you and your stubborn love.

I've got three days available in July next year, she said. So, are we going to do this thing or not? —Calendar Girl

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

It was a state called fear which afflicted Second Officer James Devlin, or perhaps - considering he was still aboard Highlander on that wild evening - a state called, simply, courage. Because you can't produce the second without experiencing the first. There are no brave men who haven't first tasted the sourness of their own inward terror, yet continued despite it.

If there is no wind, start rowing.