Quotes About Determination

You plead guilty you get 20 years, you plead guilty you get 15 years. That's the lowest time I heard and I said I'm no kingpin, I didn't do this. I decided at that moment that I was going to prison and I wasn't going to pay someone to send me to prison. I decided to put the gloves on, string up the boots, and get into the fight.

I play to win. And if I string together four of my best rounds at the Masters then there's no doubt about it - I will wear the jacket.

I think that some of the best runs that I've been on as a coach have come as the result of a tough loss or a string of tough losses that galvanized us and made us figure out who we were. Then we were able to take off. You have to use them as learning experiences and move forward.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.

I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

We strive for greatness.

It's hard to be perfect, but that's something we try to strive for.

I'm always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven't seen.

The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.