Quotes About Determination

It doesn't matter, if you're on the pitch, how old you are. You have to keep going - you have to perform - and if you're 18 or 36, you have to play your games.

Stephen Ireland is one of the most talented players I have seen, and Nigel de Jong is doing really well. He fights for his team all over the pitch, and he has a lot of character.

I will always fight and give my all on the pitch.

I'm always motivated when I go out on the pitch.

Scoring comes naturally because every time I come off the pitch and I haven't got a goal, then I am not happy with my performance.

There are times you need more than talent, and so you have to make sure you give your all and leave everything out there on the pitch.

I was always, always running. I was running since I was small. And it is something I also learned from watching my father because he never gave up on the pitch and was looking to score the goal.

I'd like to be more assertive when it comes to confrontation. I'm fine on the pitch, but off the pitch, I'm a bit of a softy.

Scoring goals is nothing new for me. Every time I go out onto that pitch, I just go out there to score goals.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

I'm not scared when I'm on the pitch.

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher.

I want to be the best pitcher in the world.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It's up to me to come up with an answer.