Quotes About Determination

After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.

We try to keep our heads cool and our chins up to win every weekend. Sometimes it works better than others but you have to focus on the positive side so for that next game you still have the right state of mind.

As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.

Having been through some adversity, starting from different points and having to work through the depth chart on many occasions, it's definitely helped my story.

One day I'd have 20 points, the next day two points. I was dribbling the ball off my leg. I couldn't understand why. The media started asking me, 'Is this because you are a new dad?' I didn't want to blame my son. There are plenty of people in much worse situations, and they make it work. I have to do that, too.

Of course we go to Montreal to work as hard as we can and do the best we can, the same way we go everything, but I think if we always think we need to score points, we start forgetting about the stuff we have to do to get there.

I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.

My whole thing was I wanted to stay poised in different situations and scenarios.

I must make my own way, and when I'm into things is when I do them best. If I'm not ready to perform and I do anyway, it's like feeding the people poison.

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

Here's a news flash: I hate to lose! Just watch any televised poker broadcast and you can see that's the case.

In the past, I'd felt I didn't want to try something because I might get shot down for it. I'd tried it with England, and the goalkeeper - I think it was against Poland - saved it. This time, it came off.

When you come from Poland, you have nothing. Your mother and father are working. You have only a bed for sleep. You have a kitchen, and that's it. You must fight.

My mom was a pilot, and my dad wrestled polar bears.

It's good to get a good lap and get pole.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Every time I get in the car, I'm just focused on being the fastest, trying to win the race, trying to get pole.

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that's important to some people, fine, more power to 'em. But, damn it, I wish they'd leave me alone to do what I want to do - run against the best.

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

My family was poor. My father was in the police force and was drawing a small salary. Because of that I could not study.

At 25, I had lost my job due to the economy, and my family wanted me to become a policeman or firefighter, but I knew there were other things out there for me. I sent some pictures to New York City and a model agency called and said, 'Where have you been?'