Quotes About Determination

There's been bumps in the road and serious challenges along the way, but my love for NASCAR and my zest for life is what's most important to me.

For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren't.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Whether the ball is on the 99-yard line or the 1-yard line, I'm going to find a way to get into the end zone.

I know how to zone myself in and just play the game.

High-performance people have larger, more expanded comfort zones than most!

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.

Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it's like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.

When I went to AC Milan, they were four points away from the relegation zone, and by the end of the season, we were just one goal away from being in the Europa League.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

If they are going to nibble and try to go below the zone or off the plate a little bit, I want to try and get a pitch in the zone that I can do damage on.

For 'Manikarnika', I've learnt horse riding and sword fighting, so I have gone out of my comfort zone.

You work on you doing your thing, sticking to your game plan, not letting stuff distract you and get you into a danger zone.

At a high level there's always gonna be noise and rumors, whether it's fake stories or real ones. You've got to be able to block that out and zone in and focus on the task at hand.