Quotes About Determination

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today.

Ever since I was maybe nine or 10 years old, I'd say, 'I'm gonna be an actor, and I'm gonna go to Julliard, and I'm gonna be in movies.' My parents never said, 'What's your backup plan?'

I always had that get-up-and-go to work for myself - I never wanted a nine-to-five job.

Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.

Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.

When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.

Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

I never finished the ninth grade.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.

In France, sometimes, you have some players or coaches say, 'If we go there, and we come back with one point, it's okay.' Here? No chance of this! Everybody wants to win. I think every team is playing to win matches, so the game is hard and fast, intensive. I really like the Bundesliga for that.

No fighter will ever get under my skin. There's no chance of that happening. I've been in this game for far too long to fall for that.

When you go against the best... a lot of series are won on fear factor or the non-belief. When you have that non-belief, then you have no chance.

Tyron Woodley can't top me, and Demian Maia has no chance to stop me.

Interceptions are gonna happen. You can't worry about that. 'I made a mistake? OK, I have to make up for it.' That's my attitude about it. If I worry about it, I've got no chance.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.