Quotes About Determination

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

I never expected to be the face of sexual harassment. But I never give up on anything. So when placed in a new, challenging situation, it's like, 'I'm going to give this 110% because that's what I've done my entire life.'

My goal is to keep going and reach as far as possible to beat all odds placed before me.

I don't look at it as, 'Oh, I'm gonna keep making beats, and I'm gonna do that until I die.' But that's how some people look at it - gonna just keep making beats, get placement after placement.

We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

We don't ever want to be complacent, and it's good to look back and see places you can improve. That's a good mentality to have.

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better than me, I'm doing it myself - plain and simple.

It was clear that it wouldn't always be plain sailing for me.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be.