Quotes About Determination

I never stopped believing in my ability or what I was doing. I want to pass that sense of faith and perseverance on to others.

Winning once is never anyone's dream. We all want to keep winning no matter what it is, or if we retire, we all still are striving toward something, probably most of us are.

Whenever you're in a position to win, you don't want to let it go.

You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?

You can do pretty much anything you want in this world, and it's not all that difficult - you just have to ignore the people who tell you that you need to go this way, and it's the only way.

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.