Quotes About Determination

We showed people we can win with our backs against the wall. We've just got to do that more often.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

I just wasn't getting anywhere. I was still a backup musician.

If you think you're going to be a backup, you're going to be a backup.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

If you come in this league, and you're comfortable with being a backup, something's wrong.

I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I felt so fortunate that I knew at the age of like, 12, like this is all I want to do for the rest of my life; that's the only play. There's no backup plan. My mom wanted me to go to school and have a backup plan. I'm like 'No, this is the only plan.'

I don't want to sacrifice and be a backup to be a Charger. That's not something I want to do or I'm going to do.

I take no step backward from anyone.

People like to watch downtrodden women who are suffering and trying to find their way up. I don't know why we have gone backwards.

Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It's something that's really stuck with me.

Nobody can walk on a track and beat me unless they have an extraordinary day and I have a bad day, which I keep from happening.

I'm never going to stop because I had a bad game. I'm never going to stop because somebody thinks that I can't do something. I'm going to always play the way I feel I should play, because I wouldn't have got to here if I felt like I couldn't.

As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.

In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'

Demetrius Andrade

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

The problem is that I've never been a player who complained or let people know how bad things were.

As a manager you're going to have some bad times, some really bad times. If you're going to walk away, then in my view you do not have the make-up to be a manager or a leader of men.

You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.

To me, you get into this business to make money and to make a name for yourself. And the fact that you're on the indies for 15 years is not a badge of honor.