Quotes About Determination

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

Sometimes I have to try to remind myself that I don't try to strike out hitters.

I'm not trying to throw six or seven pitches just to be able to strike you out. I'm trying to do it in three or four. It's the homework and the process between starts that I really focus on to help me do that.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

I'm not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it's an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.

I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can't do that. I have a strike on my back. I can't have a normal job. So, I've got to fight for everything I've got.

I have been trying for years to perform in America. Now the first time I am here there is a strike. I must play. It is what I must do.

Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.

I feel that when someone is ignored, that person strikes even harder.

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

As a fighter, I'm not one of those people that wants to prove I can go out and throw strikes.

If I'm ready to hit early, if I get fooled, then whatever. I've still got two more strikes.

What strikes me as most significant is that young people everywhere in India are anxious to do something. But I have also felt they are not quite clear in their mind as to what they should do.

If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates, you know what I mean? That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.

The more balls that I hit, it's going to get better and better. Once I get a bit more confidence in my ball striking, that's when we can get down to the nitty gritty parts of the game.

My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game.

It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.

I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.