Quotes About Determination

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.

Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league, it's put me in a good situation.

If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.

I'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

When I was named captain under Mark Sampson, there were a lot of questions about whether I was ready for it. I wasn't a certain starter. There were more experienced players than me; I was only 25. I was trying to nail down a centre-half spot, and it was a difficult situation.

I said before, I want to be a starter, I want to be an all-star - not a borderline all-star.

I was a walk-on at Maryland, I had to earn my scholarship and starter spot, and the things that've come after.

Of all the years playing football, I have never felt like an undisputed starter - that would be an error.

I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.

It wasn't like I came in and was like, 'I'm going to be a starter.' That was never in my head. It was always about, like, 'I can make sure I come and I'm better and I can handle the ball and I can shoot and I can defend. And, if I can do those things, I will play.'

I want to be a starter in this league.

I don't want to be a backup. I want to be a starter.

My personal expectations are to be a starter, and I'm going to fight to earn that position.

I practice as if I'm one of the starters.

I shouldn't have to come out and say, 'Hey, I should be a starter again.' There's a lot of guys that say that, that shouldn't be starters. The key is to go out on the field and lead your team to show people that, 'Hey, this guy is a good guy in the locker room. He can lead a team. He did it on the field. He's shown it.'

When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.

My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

There's nothing wrong in starting all over again and taking it step-by-step.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.