Quotes About Determination

I was at the crossroads of my life when I was 7 years old.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd.

It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.

The bigger the crowd, the more likely I'll do whatever it takes to win.

Against any team, confidence is crucial.

I'm very good when it comes to the crunch.

My confidence never gets crushed. Whatever happens, my attitude doesn't change.

I'm not just a guy that will walk in the ring and somebody's going to walk across and crush me.

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.

People think I'm accident-prone when they see me on crutches, but I do eight shows a week.

It took me two years to get a title shot off a split-decision loss to Dominick Cruz that the UFC told me they thought I won.

When I was playing in Santa Cruz or Mogi Mirim, they told me I was not the best. Nobody believed in me. The others would always be the top stars. But I did not let that get me down.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.

I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun, and if it's not fun anymore, we're not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we're going to stop.' I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life.

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!

I can adapt to any environment or any situation I need to, so I am ready to go to Russia. You take what you get or start crying about it, but I am re-doing 'Rocky IV.' I am doing the black 'Rocky.'

I've been written off. But I don't go about crying. Nothing is going to stop me. Not Chisora. We're marching on.