Quotes About Determination

Guys are more apt to test me than they are to test a Charles Barkley. I think I have to go out and prove myself all the time, and that's fine, because I've had to prove myself my whole life.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

I don't chase money, money chase me!

As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.

I really chase the things that I want.

I'd take winning the championship over winning a Chase race any day of the week.

Every day I chase to win. I don't chase to lose.

You never know what your best is. I can't limit myself to a 60 and say it is my best. If I can chase any total and if I win matches for India, then only it would be my best.

It gives me cancer to have an idea but not do it. Whether I get into trouble for it is not as important as the need to chase the idea.

I was never the kind of girl that chased anybody.

I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.

I'm not really chasing rematches.

I don't have a number set that I'm chasing, but I do believe I'll be a champion at 140, and again at 147.

I had a chat with my dad and decided that sometimes you've just got to look like you're fighting. So I started putting myself about a bit more, showing a bit more aggression in training.

For me, I don't want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.

I'd be champ already if it wasn't for the cheaters.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.

I really don't turn the other cheek. So when I feel like I'm being attacked, I don't back down.

After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles.

When I was going off to training and matches at Arsenal, my mum wouldn't be on the side cheering me on: she'd be working so I'd have football boots. I saw that you had to work hard if you wanted to do anything in life.

When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.

From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'