Quotes About Determination

You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal.

I won't choose opponents.

Everybody said I was ducking opponents.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

The biggest thing is being a man of your own time, combining craft with the graft, creating your own opportunities.

No one is going to give me opportunities. I've gotta take them.

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

For me, opposition is just another opposition.

I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There's no doubt.

Every ball matters - if with the last ball the opposition need four to win, and you've gone for 96, can you get that out of your mind and bowl a dot ball and win the game?

When you are playing against an opposition, you want to go out there and win a game, and for that, you have to be aggressive.

It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.

For better or worse, when I was director of public prosecutions I had to deal with every challenge that came up, and come up with an answer. Being in opposition, you're not taking the decisions; you're saying what you would do if you were in power, and that's deeply frustrating.

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

No force, oppression, imprisonment, jail... nothing will stop me.

I'd like to be the next Oprah financially, but I'm not a TV actor. I'm not someone with an entertainment background, I'm a cop. And I'm not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.

Oprah is definitely a self-made woman and she came from being dirt poor, as did I.

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.