Quotes About Determination

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

You have to be able to make plays.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.

I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.

I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

I think I've got some more big plays left in me.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

I plead the almighty that I leave this world with ghungroos on my feet.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

I don't try to please anybody. I try to win.

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

I race to win, not to please people.

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

You can't please everyone... you win some you lose some!