Quotes About Determination

My motto is 'Man Down,' and I have to live up to it. I don't go in looking for the knockout, but I let it happen naturally.

My motto is I'm going to go out and work every day no matter who is here. It's a mentality that I always play with since I've been playing football.

I see myself as a fighter, a gladiator. I have always fought my own battles.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

I'm creating my own future.

When every court was saying 'no,' I believe God was still saying yes. I had to somehow find that faith and reach deep down in my soul and believe in the teaching that my mother taught me as a young boy, that God can do everything but fail.

'You'll Accomp'ny Me' is a song I've always really cherished. The guy in that song is just so courageous. He's saying this to the girl, 'I know you've got to go do your thing, but eventually, we'll be together. I feel that strong, and I know it in my soul.' And there's something really cool about that.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.

I'm a guy who has put my heart and my soul into something, into everything that I do.

When I commit to something, I put my heart and my soul into it. That's whether I'm working on my own projects in development or for someone else.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

Every time I go in, me and my time, we're 0-0, and we're looking to become 1-0.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

I think 2020 can still be my time.

Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.

I'm only competing with myself.

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.