Quotes About Determination

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

I don't want to be a victim. I want to be a victor.

What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.

I may not be a size eight Victoria's Secret model, but I can squat my own bodyweight, I can run a mile in a great time, I can go on a Stairmaster for 45 minutes without killing myself.

If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria's Secret Angel; for me, that's always been a goal.

I am a 100 percent determined to be a Victoria's Secret model.

I don't really celebrate victories. Kobe Bryant just kept playing. Michael Jordan just kept playing.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

I want 100 victories, not just 100 fights.

My losses and my victories are in the past. I think of the future. After a fight is over, it's in the past. I always have to go back to the gym and train to improve in all areas, winning or losing. I think I can always do better next time.

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.

Trying to get over guys and knock them out, that's what fires me up. Decision victories, whoop dee doo, but finishing guys fires me up.

I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

I did not have to prove anything to people who doubted me, just to my team-mates and to Barcelona. The best thing is to do it on the field, with victories, with goals. But more than the goals is winning matches.

I've always wanted to become a grand-slam champion and to become the best in the world. Without that, the victories aren't as sweet or the defeats as motivating.

Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.

Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.

Every opportunity that presents itself, my main objective is to conquer and be victorious.

My mindset is always to be victorious, to win the match.

I went into 'RuPaul's Drag Race' saying, 'I'll never cry.' Because they make fun of every queen that cries on the show. And I did cry, and I did scream, and I did have doubt, and I did have great, victorious moments.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I'm taking it one fight at a time. But I always see myself being victorious.

I have everything to come out victorious - the strength, the speed, the youth.