Quotes About Determination

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

I don't know who my three next opponents will be. A lot of people ask me that. You want to fight me? Earn it.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.