Quotes About Determination

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.

I don't know if anybody can sign a contract to fight me and feel confident that they can beat me.

I was just trying to make it to a second contract before guys. I was trying to outplay guys on the field and trying to last longer than them in the league. I think all of those things go through your head when you're a late-rounder, and you're always trying to prove people wrong.

I'm never content regardless of me having a contract. I'm not content.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I feel confident. I feel empowered. I feel in control.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

I wasn't going to let anything control me.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

There's so many things you can't account for that can happen during each race. I just focus on controlling what I can.

I'm worried about what I can worry about and controlling what I can control.

I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

When you're No. 1 contender for five years, and you know who's controlling things, you'll do something you're not proud of.

At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.

Nobody controls me but me.

Yeah, I am controversy's favourite child. But I am of the opinion that I come back stronger after every controversy.

As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was affected. But then I decided that this is part of my profession.

You won't see me compromising just because it is convenient for me to do so.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

When you fight to give your family bread, that's not passion anymore: that's conviction.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.