Quotes About Determination

You want to be busy and try and get the scoreboard moving, and showing that intent when you go out there is important.

In high school, it was tough for me moving away, going to school and practice while my English wasn't that good and living with a family that I didn't know at all. I had to make a lot of sacrifices, but my dad always told me if I wanted this - if I really wanted to get to the NBA - that I would have to make sacrifices in my life.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

I just want to keep winning and moving forward.

I'm moving forward to do the best.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

All I can do is keep moving forward.

When you are at Real, it's a challenge every day. I'm like that, I need these high goals to keep moving forward.

I knew Kobe pretty well and he was a guy that was always moving forward.

It takes a lot of courage to stay in power, but I am pledging to you to have the courage to continue moving forward.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.

I set a goal for myself in being an actor and moving out to L.A., and I really felt I had achieved it when I landed 'Shameless.'

I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

I don't want to be the second-strongest man in the United States or the second-strongest man in the world. They don't get much attention. I definitely want to be No. 1.

Playing for Iceland, you always find the stats are against you, so I never pay too much attention to them.

I think it's real big to be honest just because of how the media say I'm a bust and all of that stuff. I really don't pay too much attention to it but I know one thing about it is when I'm focused, I'm focused.

If I beat Hughes they'll say he was done before our fight. There's always going to be those guys that play up the negative part of it, I don't pay too much attention to that.

I tend not to pay too much attention to the person marking me.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I made all my generals out of mud.

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.