Quotes About Determination

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.