Quotes About Determination

I didn't know what off-season meant. I could sprint barefoot, anywhere, anytime and on any surface.

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.

I suck at surfing. I can't pull myself up.

The orthopaedic surgeon said that if ever I had hip or groin pain, I should rest until the pain went. However, resting is not part of a dancer's life - so I just danced through the pain.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

I was either going to be an actor, a Naval aviator, or a pediatric surgeon. Those were the three things that I wanted to do.

Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.

I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.

I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

When I got hurt and had surgery on my left shoulder, my arm was in a sling for over a month but I could play Ping-Pong right-handed. I started playing and got addicted.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

I've been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I've prevailed through it.

After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I'd be able to compete again.

People don't realize I tore my rotator cuff when I was 12 or 13. At that time, being so young, we decided just to not have surgery.