Quotes About Drive

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.

Every morning, when I wake up in camp, I remember what I want. I want to be champion of the world again.

MMA, cricket, or anything, you cannot just coast. Every day, you have to wake up hungry.

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

You've got to wake up every morning and believe, 'I was born to do this.'

When I wake up in the morning, I just go.

There's just something inside of me that wakes me up every day and pushes me and wants me to be great.

A dream can be what wakes you up in the morning and keeps you going every day, whether things are going great or not. You have that dream; you have that passion inside you that you keep pushing forward.

You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

My goal is to be the absolute best in the world and to beat everybody who walks this earth. And you know what? There's a lot of people out there.

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.

I'm here to be the best - I'm here to get the belt.

I don't really care about people who are ranked below me or whatever. I just want the belt. If other people are calling me out, that's OK. That's on them.

I didn't leave school early to sit on the bench.

The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.

I have to be where the best work can be done.

I have always thought to do my best work.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

I stand a lot better chance to go further than Elton.