Quotes About Determination

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

I love first base. I want to get better.

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

It's good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.