Quotes About Determination

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.

When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

When I directed my first short - 'American Virgin' - I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.

All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'

I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before.

When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.

When I go onto the field, I will always give 100% for my team, irrespective of who we are playing against.

Ever up and onward.

Fighting is just something that's gonna open doors for things to come in the future.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

'Dancing With the Stars' really opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm so grateful for that.

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

After a two-year stint at Stars, I wanted to start my own full-service restaurant, but I didn't have the funds to do so, so I got a modest loan from my parents and opened Chipotle with the goal of having it fund that restaurant.

When I told my friends and family that I was leaving Stars to open a burrito shop in Denver, they thought I was crazy, but not long after the success of the first Chipotle, I knew I had to open just one more, so I opened a second one on Colorado Boulevard, which turned out to be even busier than the first.

Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few.

I never doubted myself when I opened my first restaurant. You've got to give 100% of yourself until you know you've done it. But it was still a struggle.

I've always been very business-oriented, ever since I was, like, eight years old and I opened my first bank account.

We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.