Quotes About Determination

I want to be great, I want to be mentioned with the best to ever play the game.

You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Everything is harder when you are a Nordestino. You have to work harder than anybody else because people will be judging you with much less mercy than the other players.

The UFC and WEC didn't give me anything. Everything I conquered was my merit and from my team.

I was determined to make it big on sheer merit.

I try to play each ball on its merit.

When I was growing up, there were times I had to compete against boys in tae kwon do, and I'd show them right away that I wasn't someone to mess with.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.

I don't mess around when it comes to fitness.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

I really wanted to be the biggest, baddest guy - not to mess with anybody, just so nobody would mess with me.

Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.

When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.

You need to stay hungry and not allow someone like John Ruiz to come over and mess you up in front of all your fans.

You don't mess with Pablo Zabaleta. He is not just looking hard, he is hard.

You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.

I learned as a fighter I know how to go out there and mess somebody.

I'm trying to run through you. I'm trying to make you feel everything that I'm bringing. That's the mentality you have to have as a running back. The defense is trying to knock the mess out of you, and I'm trying to do the same.

I just want to win. I want to mess up the draft. I don't want the first pick.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

My message always is: No matter where you are from, no matter what past you have, it is all about your future and your goals.