Quotes About Determination

I firmly believe that if you're really unhappy with something, then you should go ahead and change it.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

I think that it's all about finding that confidence in you. If you don't feel like you have it, figure out what's making you unhappy - whether it's your surroundings, your job, whatever it is. Go out and change it.

The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it.

Obviously, it's unheard of for anybody to come back from this type of injury that Edge had.

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.

If the arm got sore, we went out and pitched until the soreness left - we had to, or we would have been dropped from the team. Nothing short of a broken leg could have kept us out of uniform.

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.

London was my first Olympics, but I tried for three beforehand. I was measured for the Olympic uniform three times before London, and I finally made the team. It was a big deal, and it was quite emotional, which is probably one of the reasons I didn't perform at my best.

It wasn't easy to act when dressed in the heavy ice hockey uniform - it was exhausting.

We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!

I would like to unify and test myself against other champions.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended.

Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!

When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.

I had a unique form: a Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

When we were making 'Scam 92,' we knew that it was something unique.

Hong Kong might be a small place, but its people make it unique. The iconic images of skyscrapers in this bustling metropolis are famous around the world, but it is the people of Hong Kong, standing up for their city on the streets, who make it truly great.