Quotes About Determination

No breaks and no plan B. I've just been boxing, day in and day out.

You want to go out there, and you want to be sharp, and you want to execute your game plan and... get it done fast.

People who have now become famous and say that they never had a plan B in mind, it doesn't work like that.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.

Paul would have jumped on a plane and asked questions later, and been there a day before we were there. That's who he was. He was fearless.

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.

I first flew in a plane at eight, and by the age of 10 I had mother drive me out to an airstrip to study the planes parked there.

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.

The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.

I'm a competitor. Any time you work hard and you envision something a certain way and it's not going as you planned and you see it, you know, you go back to the drawing board and you figure it out.

I'm a plodder, not a planner.

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

I was never planning on just making the UFC, I was always planning to be champion.

Of course I want to bring home a gold medal, and that's what I'm planning on doing. For me, that's not pressure. It's a chance to show the world who I am.

From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.

Education lays a strong foundation. I was keen on films, but my mother insisted on me finding all about the line I was planning to take. I am into films but I know my Plan B is ready, just in case.

A result doesn't determine the planning on the sporting side.