Quotes About Determination

I believe that we will win!

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete. I worked hard every day to make sure that it became a possibility and sacrificed a lot for the game of football.

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.

Even if you don't become a professional athlete, the experience of working with a team, knowing how to set goals, and working every day to figure out how to accomplish those goals definitely gives you confidence to apply those same characteristics to other life challenges.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.

I've always had the upmost confidence in my abilities as well as the other guys in The Shield. We all have kind of have the same mindset as far as success, personally and professionally.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.

When I was about 16, I started to believe I could play professionally. I worked hard and focused more.

My sister was an athlete. Every time she came home during her break, I would accompany her. Initially, I took part in school sports, but gradually, my sister encouraged me to take it up professionally.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.