Quotes About Determination

Heroes can be sweet.

Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.

It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was so nervous. But as I got more experienced, I had to choose between fight and flight - and I've fought every time.

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. That's what made it so much sweeter when we hit No. 1.

I lose my mind if I miss a swell that I want to be on and I have the ability to be on it.

I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't have been able to write a book that did as well as it did, and that book should never have been made into a movie. Yet, here I am.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

Whatever other people expect me to do, whatever they're comparing me to, I don't care. I'm just trying to swim fast.

I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.

My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.

I always wanted to swim the Channel, which is insane.