Quotes About Determination

There wasn't a huge focus on tag team wrestling when it was Edge and Christian v The Hardys v The Dudleys, but we forced it. We went out there with something to prove every single time and forced everyone to see that we needed to be on the show every week.

I never put a 'last one' tag on my fights because you never know.

At one stage, I just wanted to play one Test for India. People used to say I was just a T20 bowler, a limited-overs bowler. All these tag lines were doing the rounds but I did want to make a difference.

Every play I'm competing my tail off to try to win the route, win the block or whatever my job is on that play.

I'm just going to compete my tail off and hopefully win a lot of games.

It's not easy not getting playing time, but you have to keep showing up and working your tail off to be ready.

You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.

Any time you come out and bust your tail, good things are going to happen.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

Ain't no point in stopping or slowing down. Ain't like no 'A'ight, I'm done with this, now take a break,' you just keep going.

I take the bull by the horns and make a plan and go for it.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.

You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.

I love standing up behind the blocks, and I love that moment just before you dive in and it goes quiet, and you take a deep breath and you just dive, and then you try and win, but that moment just before I go, that's why I race.

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.