Quotes About Determination

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.

I can't begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Madam Chief Minister' is one of the most exciting scripts I have read and it possessed me.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

I'm going to compete every possession.

I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

You have to stay disciplined from the start of the game to the end of the game, from the start of the possession to the end of the possession.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.

When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.

John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.

I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but I didn't see any possibility of me not going to NIDA. I believed in myself, and I believed that, if you really do want something, you get it.

I think the bullpen is always a possibility for anyone, but that's not where I plan on being.

I want to go and fight the best guys in the world and show people I'm the best. And hey, if something doesn't go my way - I don't think that's gonna happen. I realize that's a possibility in competition, and that's what happens.

I don't ever think in terms of losing. That's not even a possibility. I've been beaten once, and I don't ever want to experience that again.

If I had been healthy and projected in the top 20 and then fell into the second round I'd have been hurt. But I knew that possibility was likely and I was ready.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

He made the impossible possible.