Quotes About Determination

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

I have my moments of insecurity and figuring out what's going on and what I'm supposed to do, but if you don't push yourself, you're not growing, so where do you go?

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it's such a great soap box.

A boxing gym is not supposed to look like a hotel or a condo. It is supposed to be rugged.

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

I always thought the best part about sports was the bigger, faster kids who were supposed to be more athletic than me - I always beat.

I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.

We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

The nice thing about the 'House of Cards' is they did 70 takes, so it was a little different. You only get one at the Supreme Court.

I have this firm belief that when I step on the field that I believe I'm the best player on the field, but I also believe that I'm not good enough yet. Because of that, I need to make sure that I'm striving to improve every aspect of my game.

What I would like to say is make sure you know what you really want to do and do it. And also I want to say, if not now then when?

I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like.

I'm not sure what you need first - the players believing or others believing in them - but in the end, both have to think it.

My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.

I was such a strong-willed child, my parents weren't sure how to deal with me.

I want to follow my dreams. I want to make sure that I put myself first and accomplish what I need to accomplish.