Quotes About Determination

Let's be real, I've got a receding hairline, I'm slow and I'm probably not the most jacked up with abs and all that, but I'm still going to beat you one-on-one.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

I can one-on-one, mano-a-mano, BBQ chicken, I don't care.

Being one of the best in the world, you want to go against one of the best in the world - one-on-one, man-on-man.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

With my mentality, I'm one-on-one, I'm going to win. No matter who's out there, I don't really care.

One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.

Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.

Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

If you're on Earth as a single-purpose engine, and there's only one thing you want to do for the rest of your life, have at it.

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there's only one way that we can go - and that's up.

There's only one way to get strong. You work at it.

There's only one way to play this game since I was a little kid - play fast, play physical, play strong.

There's no such thing as holding back. I want to finish as soon as possible. The only time I did it was because he was a friend of mine. It was against Thales Leites. We went until the last round because he's a friend of mine, and I respect him.

The only time I won't be playing is when I've got a hangover.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.