Quotes About Determination

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

In direct confrontation, the [Japanese] women might yield like blades of grass -- and spring back just as quickly. One of them compared this flexibility to the Vietcong guerrillas…

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Yotsuba: I'll get revenge! … I'm going! Jumbo (in a suffering manner): Yotsuba… please, come back alive… Yotsuba (heroic): Alright. Even if I die… I'll come back alive. —–Yotsuba!

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.

Win just one for the Gipper.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way, or out of it.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

I'm not the most talented. I'm not the tallest. I'm not the strongest. But I will outwork you.

Everything negative -- pressure, challenges -- is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace -- I'd play anywhere.

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.

No that's beside the point. I just decided to take instead of being taken. It's not a question of good or bad, wrong or right. It's just what I want to do. Mitsuko Souma

That's when I tossed a coin. If it came up heads, I'd take on Sakamochi and... If the coin came up tails, I decided I'd take part in the game.

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore... -Mitsuko Souma