Quotes About Challenge

I was the kid who'd get up in class and tell the teacher, 'But we were supposed to have a test today! I studied for it!'

There's a lot of good fighters at 168 with or without Canelo, so I want to test myself against them.

I am comfortable with five-days. I like the challenge of a five-day Test.

I think any actor, if they had the choice, would opt for challenging roles that test their capabilities.

Test matches are what really drive me to perform.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

I love the sport of wrestling because it's a testament of your will and what you're capable of as a man.

I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

As a cricketer - or any sportsperson, for that matter - you like yourself to be tested and get better all the time.

I want to be tested until my limit.

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.