Quotes About Determination

I think no matter who you are or what you do in life, you should set the bar high, that way, when you do obtain those things, you can say, I did this, but if you didn't get it, you can look an see what you needed to do to get there.

Most innovative things are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you've got a good idea, follow it even though others tell you it's not.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

Obviously I want to win something important, this game is important to me.

Obviously, there's times in your career when people doubt you.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

I obviously love to run the ball.

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.

I competed hard in the heat of the battle, and there were a few occasions where I played my best in the top matches. As for the best ever? I don't think so.

On numerous different occasions I have had people tell me that I am only booked because of my dad, because of who I was dating, or any other exceptions other than my hard work, so in my mind I wanted to put in the extra hours in the ring.

I've come second twice and I've played golf capable of winning the Masters on both of those occasions. I wasn't really back-dooring my way into a second place, I was right there playing great golf against guys playing their best golf.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.