Quotes About Determination

We were taking one step for jocks, one giant leap for jock-kind.

John Bunyan once said: "You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Convince a man to take a single step—after all, what earthly difference could one step make?—and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.

It was ever the same: Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

You know the rule of the slog, boys. The knee that buckles pulls ten men down.

Despite the loud booing from Shari and Greg, Bird managed to punch the ball past the shortstop for a single. "Lucky hit!" Greg yelled, cupping his hands into a megaphone. Bird pretended not to hear him.

Nearly a whole year has gone by, and we haven't tried to scare Carly Beth once. I don't think Carly Beth can be scared. Not anymore. After last Halloween, I don't think anything scares her. She is totally fearless. I haven't heard her shriek or scream once the entire year.

Bending to her task, she picked up the pen, dipped it into the inkwell, and feverishly began to write again.

Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.

I'll do it! No, you won't, Shane and Michael said, at virtually the same time. Shane continued. You're barely on your feet, Claire. You don't go anywhere, not without me. And me, Michael said. Hell, Eve sighed. I guess that means I have to go, too. Which I may not ever forgive you for, even if I don't die horribly.

Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

I knew we'd wear them down,' Eve said. 'After all, we really are amazingly cool.' And now it was Eve's turn for the high five with Shane. 'For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.' 'Which one are you?' Shane asked. She flipped him off. 'Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.

Hess laughed. You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath. Oh, I am mousy, she said.All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try. Even a mouse bites.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

No," Shane said. "I'm not leaving you two here alone. We stick together." "I'm still not kissing you," Michael said. "Tease.

All right, he said. Since you ask so nicely. I wasn't asking. I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

See? My plans don't all suck. Just most of them.

He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. No, Shane said. I did it. Let me fix it. He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks." "Just most things.

And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, punch him in the face and then run like hell. - Eve Rosser

Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!

You're not going to suck.'' ''Not at the guitar, anyway,'' Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ''Ow.

I'm not leaving," Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. "Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.