Quotes About Determination

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

It gives you a measure of Tyson's ambition: He was so determined to take what he needed from Bobby Stewart that, to prove to his prospective mentor that he was sincere, this supposedly uncontrollable kid became a model inmate.

It's easy to slip back. You have to be disciplined.

Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be?

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Teddy Roosevelt

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.

Sehra, Dont ever lay down and die....for NOTHING at all." ~ Tehmina Durrani

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

When I left Spain, I had it very clear in my mind that I would return one day.

Spain is such a competitive league, and for the players to give up La Liga, it's such a tough decision.

In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.

When you face Spain it's not a normal friendly.

At 17... I went to the second division in Spain, played a lot of minutes, and we actually won that league.

If I didn't think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

I have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn't come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully come back to it another time.

In May of 2017 they told me that no one has ever had 3 major surgeries in a 12 week span and returned at a competitive level. I returned to the most successful run of my career.

I can't put this down. I'm reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.