Quotes About Determination

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor.

I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised.

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.

So, we know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I still believe that is the good thing about Nigerian players. We can always spring up so many surprises.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

I lost a lot. It was almost like I was a retired player where I lost all of my athleticism. I lost everything. Being able to get it back, step by step, little bit at a time, it was like surprising myself.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

You should never surrender, never give up.

We never quit. My mom instilled that attitude in us, that never quit, never surrender.

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I don't fold and surrender for nobody. That's just a fact.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

In my head the word surrender has never existed, because that is what Real Madrid is about.