Quotes About Determination

People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.

The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous.

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.

Hard work is just something that my parents, when I was young, they made sure that we knew what hard work was and that it was okay to work hard and okay to sweat.

I don't sweat bad games.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

I like sweating.

My situation, and my opportunity, was the fourth tier in Swedish football and a place that nobody really wanted to go to. Of course it's turned out well for me.

You can't just sweep me under the rug like I won't come back stronger and better.

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

It's hard to close people out, regardless whether you're sweeping them or ending the series, period. It's hard.

Trying to find the limit of yourself and the limit of the car and sometimes to exceed it and see the real limit - if you find that sweet spot and are able to repeat it, it is one of the best feelings.

Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing.

I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

The sweet feeling is knowing that nobody gave me anything for free.

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.