Quotes About Determination

I'd go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I'd stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.

Even if you aren't sure of yourself, pretend that you are... most people prevaricate.

I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.

I'm not the prettiest. I'm not the best, but I win and that's all that matters in the UFC.

I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.

I'm usually a pretty intense person. Give me an inch, and I'm going to go.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

I'm more than a fighter and not just a pretty face.

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.

It's important to me that I'm more than a pretty face or another person starring in movies. That's great, but there's so much more than can and should be done.

For whatever reason, I'm pretty good with pressure. I kinda just flip it over and think of it as positive.

I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.

I just love fighting. I know I'm not the best, but I'm still pretty good, there's a lot of people I can still beat. What do you do. What else am I supposed to do? I have no other skills. I enjoy doing this. There's nothing I'd really rather do, you know?

When you're out here grinding away, firing at some flags, firing at the middle of the green, you just got to be very patient, and I always do a pretty good job of that in the majors.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

If you fail on your own terms, that's a pretty good way to go down.

I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

I'm OK with having a really good football player with a chip on his shoulder because he's going to come to prove to not only the people that didn't draft him, but himself, that I'm a pretty good football player.

Everything I played, I kind of found a way to be pretty good at. My mom always said, 'If you're not good at something, then don't do it.'

I just feel people can see, when I'm 100 percent, I am running hard. I can do pretty good.

If you can be the best from Queensbridge and actually make it out, then you must be pretty good.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.