Quotes About Determination

You have games when you miss shots and when you make shots. But knowing you're here for a reason and you're an NBA basketballer helps.

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

Make or miss, you still have to shoot the same shot with confidence.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I've missed a lot of football.

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

I've missed before in college and high school. If you miss, you figure out what went wrong and kick the next one.

If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.

Haven't a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn't have another chance at it? So we give up early.

One thing the fans got to understand is that I missed two years, and we took it really, really slow, and we made sure everything was good, and my foot has been great.

Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.

Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would've been a good basketball player, one of those grinders getting eight to 10 rebounds. I would've been like Kobe and been in the gym five to seven hours a day and never missed a 10-foot jump shot. I would've been a great role player for a team.

I've hit a lot of big shots and missed a lot of big shots, and I'll continue to shoot them.

If I missed bronze by whisker, it was due to lack of experience.

I always want to push on, I always want to keep going because I feel like I've missed out on things in the past, so I'm going to keep going until I can't go anymore.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

I've heard this stuff about a kicker 'losing his leg' ever since I was a rookie, and I can tell you that there is nothing to it. Every time a field goal kicker misses a few, the word gets around that he's lost his leg, meaning his kicking strength.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

Not missing games, miss one game due to injury in my career, and that even hurt me to miss that game, but I just love to get out there and compete, both ends of the ball, and I don't think I'm afraid to take the big shot. If I'm 2-for-15, I'm not afraid to take that shot, make it 3-for-16.

I'm sort of missing that part of my brain where I look at anything as a challenge. I always have.

When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'Well, if he's getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I'm not missing out,' type of thing.

I don't like to lose a 50/50, in the same way a striker doesn't like missing chances.

I'm not the type of player to let the 3s get me down: 'Oh, I'm missing a couple of 3s. I don't want to do this no more.' No, I'm out there playing basketball, and I'm not going to let that get me down.