Quotes About Determination

I have been a fighter all my life.

I've had it all my life - people thinking I was too small or not fast enough, not strong enough.

All my life I have had to fight to catch up with people. But not in the water. That's the one place where everyone else is trying to keep up with me!

I choose fighting. I change all my life.

Men can do all things if they will.

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

I don't train to be an All-American. I train to be the best.

You don't have to be an All-American. You just have to have character and courage, and I take that message very seriously.

I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.

I've always put the work in to not only get be an All-Star, but be an All-Star for a long time. That's my goal.

Confidence is almost everything for a player.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.

We won the Europa League in 2013 and it was an amazing night, an amazing feeling. I take those memories and think to myself, 'I want to do that again.'

If you don't have ambition, you shouldn't be alive.

I think I have a lot of ambition when it comes to acting.

When you have ambition, then it's never enough to win.

If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!

If you don't have ambition to be one of the best, someone will always come and take your place.

We have given ourselves the means of our ambitions, and in football, when we give ourselves the means, it is always less difficult.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

I have a lot of ambition.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.