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Quotes About Determination

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.
~ Eddie the Eagle
When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.
~ Jonathan Agnew
The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.
~ Brooklyn Decker
Confidence is one of those things that no one ever wants to talk about in this industry because confidence and ego run neck and neck. But you have to understand, those are things that you have to have in order to make it to where Edge has made it. You've got to have a certain amount of ego and confidence in yourself to get there.
~ Shawn Michaels
Everything Maradona did, he did with a guy hanging on his neck during 90 minutes.
~ Zico
You have to try and take games by the scruff of the neck... you can't mollycoddle everyone.
~ Matt Doherty
One chance is all you need.
~ Jesse Owens
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
~ Michelle Williams
We need the right attitude and the right motivation - that can decide the match above everything else.
~ Sergio Ramos
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
~ Moshe Dayan
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
~ S. Truett Cathy
I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.
~ Will Ferrell
I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
~ Gwen Stefani
Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get to the bottom of everything.
~ Domino Kirke
It's never nice looking over your shoulder and needing other results but sometimes that happens in football. It's a lot better to know your future is in your own hands.
~ John McGinn
With all strikers, it's just about needing a bit of confidence.
~ Jan Vertonghen
I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.
~ Claire Messud
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
~ Margaret Thatcher
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
One needs to be clear headed. I believe in all-round fitness.
~ Gautam Gambhir
I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
I was 'Little Ty,' 'Little Tyrone.' I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.
~ Muggsy Bogues
I just ignore those who say negative comments against me. Whether I'm doing right or wrong, they would still say the same things against me.
~ Arnel Pineda
I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.
~ Erin Andrews