Quotes About Determination

I got let go at City, but I always believed I could play at the top level.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.

There are too many fights in our sport that are exciting, and you've got to let us fight.

I am not someone who lets my head get down.

I have at least one goal that I work toward each day. It's all about taking hold of the day rather than letting the day run you.

'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.

Letting goals in doesn't look great to myself.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

It's never great letting in goals but at the same time I'm a pretty present-minded person.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

Weaklings must lie.

Everything in life is a fight. Everybody wants this microwavable life, and it doesn't work like that. I'm here to say, 'See what I went through? Look at me now.'

Everything you do in life is a process that you work at it, and you can't give up.

I started playing basketball very late, and for me to make it to the league so fast... I've always said my life is a movie.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

There was a period of time early in my career where I was like, 'I'm gonna definitely fight. I definitely want to be a part of this lifestyle.' Then there was a period of time where I had so much success in the sport of wrestling, and I was like, 'I don't really need fighting.'

I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.

All I can do is lift to the best of my ability and then let whatever happens, happen.

What's heavy for me when I lift, probably isn't actually a lot of weight.

It's easy to continue to go out to the field, even if I'm by myself or running and lifting and doing what I need to do - it's actually easy because I love what I do.