Quotes About Determination

Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.

I'm working a lot. Keeping my head down and focusing and trying to take advantage of the opportunities that have come my way.

I don't believe in getting lucky, I never have - luck is actually being ready to take advantage of an opportunity when it arises because you have the skill set you need and the drive and determination to do it.

You have to take advantage of every opportunity that you get and go hard.

There aren't many people that can say that they went up against their brother and do it multiple times. Any time I get to I try to take advantage of it. I guess by trying to dunk on him.

I've set up my goals, and I go after them, and if I do that each day, the rest will take care of itself.

The key is to keep playing hard and the rest will take care of itself.

As long as we win, that's all that matters and everything else will take care of itself.

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

Being as fit as I can, and working as hard as I can, is at the forefront of my mind. The rest will take care of itself.

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

I'm a very goal-oriented person, and work is really rewarding. It's how I take care of my family, and ultimately, I'm never going to let that responsibility fall to anybody but myself.

I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.