Quotes About Determination

I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.

I never questioned I would have any trouble doing what I wanted to do. I'm not talking about getting to a certain position - or to success. It was just that I knew I wanted to act, and that I would make my living that way. Having the unconditional support of your parents is really freeing.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I'm going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that's what will happen.

I've never been knocked unconscious in my entire career.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.

My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.

My mother had to make an unconventional decision. We had to run away from home. She made a really difficult decision to leave financial stability behind and undertake raising two girls on her own.

I have always stuck to my belief and conviction no matter how unconventional.

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

All of the great fighters have had losses but are still considered among the greatest ever. The undefeated record is not as important to me as facing the toughest challenges out there.

I am undefeated in Oklahoma, and that's the thing; I plan on keeping it that way.

At the end of your career, you go, 'I'm gonna be able to retire undefeated and be one of the very, very few people in history to do it.' People were saying I should try and get to 50-0, but my number was 46 - that was it. I could have kept trying, but one loss would have spoiled everything.

I don't think being undefeated is going to determine my greatness.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

You learn a lot about yourself when things aren't going well. It's always good to be the underdog.

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

The city of Philadelphia is all about the underdog.

When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.

I've been an underdog all my life.