Quotes About Determination

To be the top guy throughout my life and my career, to have people coming at me every game, giving me their best shot - that's part of the reason I went to Duke. I love that stuff.

If I was going to start over, then I wanted to go somewhere I could get better and win and see if I was a really good player. That's why I came to Duke.

They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.

If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.

Watch my dust.

Growing up, I was aware of being a dwarf but I felt I could do anything.

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

I have always been confident. I know my own mind, what I'm able to do. I will never sit down and dwell.

I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

I'm not dying until I do.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.

The singing in 'Dynamite,' it wasn't easy because the song is high-pitched.

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

It's important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.

Track and field is definitely a science and each year as an athlete you try to develop and become stronger.

One thing I admire about the Eagles is they always seem to know what they want. They always seem to know why they want it. They always seem to want it at the same time.

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

Earlier in my career I had so much to prove.

My parents gave up on their dreams in sports because they were athletes, and they had me at such an early age. I didn't want to do that.

I knew I wanted to coach at an early age.

It's something that you have to teach your children from an early age: to work hard for what they want.

In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere.