Quotes About Determination

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

I don't believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that's indecision.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

I have no sense of humor about losing

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

You play to win the game.

I always think street but train sport.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.