Quotes About Determination

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

I do a good cold, hard stare.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

You have to go to sleep at night staring at the wall, thinking, 'Damn, I can't wait for it to be morning so I can have the ball at my feet again!' You can only play your best football in these conditions.

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.

If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.

I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!

It ain't how you start out, it's how you finish.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

It's easy to give up. It's even easier to start pointing fingers.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

I need someone to be like, 'I can beat Bert in a marathon.' And then my Mickey Mantle genes will kick in and I'll start going, 'No you can't. You can't beat me, because I'll beat myself.'

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

If I know it's going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get back in the dugout.

Netflix was my sixth start-up, and that point I decided I didn't have it in me to start another company. At least that's what I thought at the time.

Like many start-up stories, mine has been rocky.

Any kind of business or start-up you have, you're going to be faced with a lot of people who maybe don't believe in it or see the vision or just say no. The key is seeing beyond that and really trying to not let the no's get you down.