Quotes About Determination

I'm old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.

I feel like my old self on the ice.

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.

I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

Coming into the league, everyone said I was going to be fat, I was the next Oliver Miller. I had all these red flags. I just feel I was never given a fair chance coming in.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

I'm a Golden Gloves national champion, I'm an Olympic alternate.

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.

Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.

I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.