Quotes About Determination

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

It's not something that I dwell on. I've never really had a problem with being soft.

Even though I thought of myself as soft and squishy, I always had this great will and focus and was just so driven.

That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.

Serbian people are not soft, and if the coach wants me to play, then I will.

Sometimes footballers, we get soft a little bit.

I knew I wasn't soft. I knew I could play on this level and I knew that being in the paint was just a physical position that I wasn't strong enough for. I wanted to get myself strong enough where I could be dominant down there.

If Mikkel Kessler thinks I'm going soft just because I'm a dad then he's the one who's gone soft in the head.

I prefer to not be soft.

I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.

After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.

I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.

The beauty of a game like softball is you're failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you're still failing seven out of 10 times. But you're still good.

Softball is my life.

When you think about success - whether it be in softball, getting into college or becoming an 'American Idol' singer - whatever your goals and aspirations are, you're going to have to stand out at some point if you want to succeed.

I wanted to show that I could take on roles that were a bit softer and more caring.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

Music has been my real solace. And that's why I play music. And that's why I'm so determined, or have been so determined to pursue what I wanted to do, come what may.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

In Nigeria, my grandma sold everything - everything - for my mum's education.

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.