Quotes About Determination

You know, it cuts both ways... no one wants to lose a job, but everybody wants to work.

You can see the love I have for the sport. Blood, cuts, scars... I love fighting. I'm going to do it for as long as I can.

In winning cycles you're linked with everything or if you lose a few games on the bounce there is talk of you going. I just put my head down and get on with it.

I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.

I do not plan to go on cycling until I am completely tired and finished.

With cycling, I can still be active and compete, and ultimately, that's what I love to do, to be competitive.

I'm a bit rubbish at everything apart from cycling.

Second doesn't mean anything in cycling.

I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do.

I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

I always like to write something that will paint a cynical picture, but provide hope at the same time; I like to do that with my writing, even in the worst of times.

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

You will get cynicism, and the only way to break through is keep showing people and take actions.

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

Daddy was never ruthless but he was tough.

My plan was to put him on a go-kart track when he was six years-old but he was with his mum at a track in Genk and he called me up crying because he saw a younger guy driving on the track. He said to me 'Daddy, I want to do this,' so when I got home from the Canadian GP, I bought him a go-kart and that's how he started.

I didn't come from the sort of family where Daddy would provide - so I had to work.

I know if I'm doing the right things and if I do the right work, I'll win those long matches, and the success will come itself. This is not something I think of on a daily basis.

I never did think I had brain damage.

I'm not here to take damage. I don't want to not be able to talk. Every single time I fight, I know that... this could be the last time that you're able to do this, the last time you're able to talk.

People have said I have brain damage, but I've passed all of my physicals, all of my medicals. They've checked my head so many times it's crazy.

I started really looking for the pitch I know I can drive, the one I can do damage on.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

I am never going to be made a Dame doing Dot.