Quotes About Determination

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.

I can go 0-for-5, I can go 5-for-5, I'm going to be the same guy. I'm a happy guy, people have to deal with it.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

I want to do the best I can with the situation I'm dealt.

Guys like Rey Mysterio Jr., Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, guys like that, they've inspired me. They made me want to do this. Those guys were three of the top cruiserweights that you can name.

I want to win every debate and I think I do.

I put myself in debt to get to the NBA.

I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own theatre company even though I was in deep debt in 1988.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

My debut season was a good one for me, especially at 16, but I said that I want to improve.

When I had entered Bollywood, I had decided that in the first decade of my career, I will do what others ask me to do, and in the next decade, I will do what I want.

I know what it feels like to have a talent and not be able to use it for almost half a decade.

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.

I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.

I'll know that when I play a good game, a decent game, and I know when I can play a lot better and aggressive, when I can take over a game myself.

Unless I think I can manage to make something decent, I won't.