Quotes About Determination

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

I run to see who has the most guts.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

Effort is a measure of a Man.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

We have not yet begun to fight.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. Of course, there are lots of other words he doesn't know either.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.