Quotes About Determination

I never entered a fight overconfident.

I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

I've always thought that there are many things still left in society that are detached from the sense of ordinary people. I won't overlook them and I will determine what is right before taking bold action.

I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

I didn't need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day.

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Marathons don't come to you overnight.

I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

Being quickest in practice is nice. It builds a lot of confidence overnight.

I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don't do that and then become an average player overnight, so I know I can contribute to West Ham.

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

Once I went overseas and had this real motivation to get back, I was willing to do whatever it took to stick in this league, and that's what I did.

You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.

I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.

I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.