Quotes About Determination

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world.

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

In modelling, some girls have been working for the last 15 years and they are still in the same cycle of what they have been doing. It is too big a pool and I am not going to travel with the herd. I need to pave my own way.

He who hesitates is poor.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds really cliche - but I want to play something really physically challenging, something extremely demanding and strong.

For me, I'm going to try to do the same thing to you no matter if I like you, no matter if I hate you, no matter if it pops up. You're not going to be able to say one thing, and now I really want to kick you.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.