Quotes About Determination

I think I got stamina from my dad, although he didn't have a lot of drive.

I see a lot of guys and their stamina is at an all-time low in the fourth quarter, and I feel like mine is still where it was in the first quarter of the game.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

I never thought in a million years that people would be able to take me seriously as an actress, and now, being a part of the Golden Globes, that's just a stamp of approval that people are seeing me as the actress I am.

I would never want people to point at me and say, 'Well, she got herself off of food stamps, so anybody can if they work hard enough.' It's just not true.

Stan Hansen was a different ballgame. I broke my neck wrestling him in Madison Square Garden. I spent a month in the hospital and for a while it was touch and go because the doctors told me I came within a millimeter of being paralyzed from the neck down.

As a woman, my stance is that I'm a fighter, and in no way will I support any kind of injustice against women in our society.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.

The work will stand, no matter what.

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

Every decision you make, you got to stand on that decision.

I hated losing. Being defeated made me sick, I couldn't stand it.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.