Quotes About Determination

Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal the basketball.

Goaltending can steal you a series.

I have the speed. People said, 'Just hit the ball on the ground, slap the ball, just get on base.' But I wanted to be able to hit home runs. I wanted to be able to bunt, steal bases, play defense.

If the opportunity is there to steal a base, I try to steal it.

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'

The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it's always been about winning.

I was so competitive when I played. I was trying to get every loose ball, trying to get steals. That's what I was kind of infamous for in high school.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.

I've always been ballsy. My dad is a blunt northerner, and maybe I've got a bit of that in me. I just kind of steam ahead.

When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.

When it comes to Everest, psychologically, you have to be in the red. If you're not, it doesn't matter how fit you are. I've seen the fittest of people, who I thought would steam up the top of Everest, allow the pressure to take over their body.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

The kids who take up athletics actually come from modest to poor backgrounds. They make it on their own steam; some of them don't even have the basic means like shoes and enough food to eat.

Just sitting in a steam room, you can't breathe. When you're doing Hindu squats in one and you get past 100, your whole body feels numb and you keep going. You start to find your limits and push your body past those limits, making new ones.

If you don't seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it's full steam ahead.

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.