Quotes About Determination

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

When I was a baby, if I cried, my parents didn't give me a blanket. They gave me a ball and sent me to the little court in our backyard. I must have cried a lot because I was one of those kids who could dribble and shoot at 5 years old.

Was I afraid before every game I played? Did I throw up before kickoff? You bet. But I didn't let that fear cripple me and keep me in the locker room.

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.

Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I think every athlete is their own biggest critic. That's just who we are. We're so competitive.

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

Of course, people are going to criticise when things aren't going well. As players, we have to take on responsibility and prove people wrong.

I love it when people criticise me. There is no better feeling than when you make them quiet.

If people criticise, you have to keep working.

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

I've accepted loads of criticism and sacrificed so much money to do what I wanted to do - which, in a very small way, contributed to making things easy for my kind of actors.

I don't take criticism lying down.

I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I need to do.

I was not used to criticism.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

You will get criticism throughout your career. All the best players have had it at some stage, and they haven't let it ruin their careers. I won't, either.

If I am going to be afraid of the criticisms that my films get, I am never going to make films.

From what I came from, all the negative criticism - that keeps me from embracing that title of being the best. Because I always feel like there is another level I have to get to.

I know there are going to be people who criticize what I do no matter what, but I'm just trying to not get caught up in it.

Everyone can criticize me. I don't listen to them.

I don't say that I'm the best in the country, because I always criticize myself so hard. There are so many things I can say are wrong with my game, and someone can sit there and say, 'Well no, this, this and this are good.' I'm just hard on myself.