Quotes About Determination

I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard.

Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I'm ready to walk through the fire.

I went over a year without playing baseball. At 39, not playing for a year, a year and a half, there were a lot of nights I was saying, 'This is going to be tough.'

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.

There were nights I was at home crying, thinking I'd never make it. I'd get up the next day and go to the audition, do my best, and try my hardest.

There's no off nights. When you think it's an off night, it's not.

You have to keep shooting, even on tough shooting nights. You have to believe the next shot is going in.

Over the years, it's funny: my guys will tell you and anyone that I have a problem not giving 100 percent. Because there are some nights where I probably shouldn't actually say everything or do everything I think I should do.

Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.

I had to build my name here by doing talent nights, talent competitions and networking and meeting all the working girls and figure out how to work this animal of New York City.

You just go out there and try to do your best. Some days are great. Other nights, it's maybe not your day. It's the other guy's day.

Some nights, I try to play-make and some nights it's my time to be aggressive.

I've been through enough competition in amateur wrestling my whole life to know that sometimes you have off nights and you don't perform and chalk it up to that and move on.

There's some nights you shoot the ball better than others. When you don't shoot it well, you have to have an understanding you can play well by doing other things.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever.

When people ask what college I graduated from, I say: I didn't graduate from college. I graduated from Nike. I started my career as an intern getting coffee.

I'm like Nike, just do it.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.