Quotes About Determination

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

Ninety-nine percent of this game is half mental.

The game's not over until it's over.

tried-and-true methods. Once, he had sifted through a hundred bags of garbage

But I remember a scene where someone sneaks out into the woods to meet someone. ... And that's where it came from. Everything else is there to turn it from an image into a story. ... That image was strong enough for me to never give up on it, no matter what my editors and agents thought.

You have zeal - have you nerve?

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving

He thought it essential for youngsters to develop tenacity "so there's never an idle moment

I'm going to make it very hard. I love you and I'm tired of being told what I should want and what I should do. You and I got married and I can stomp my foot and scream and rail at you because of the deal you made with my father, but the truth is I wouldn't have married you if I didn't want to". She took a deep breath. "And I don't think anyone. including my father, could have forced you to marry me. So, Mr. Megalos, consider yourself stuck with me.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

Nobody hears a single word you say, but you keep on talkin' till your dying day.

To be a Rock, and not to Roll...

Easy dosen't matter to Lyudmila. Easy has never mattered. Possible is what matters.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

If a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

Eat. This time you're eating paper. The next time it's going to be glass.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn't live there. He lived in a world where you don't start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don't lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren't yet.