Quotes About Drive

You have to work hard if you want something, and my parents instilled that into me when I was really young.

I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.

No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.

Remember, it isn't the dreamers who have good lives - it's the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

Competitive spirit is a driving force that keeps life going with a thrill.

In 'Stree,' I play a character who believes that he knows everything. And I play a cop in 'Drive.' It is a different kind of a role. It is not a uniform-wearing character. The film is interesting, since it is a thriller.

I've always thrived on getting a drive from different emotional circumstances that I'm going through.

I thrive on competition.

I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.

Do you need an aggressive streak to thrive? You could say that. A lot of the great players have that mentality.

I thrive on healthy competition.

In England, there are four major cities within a two-hour drive, so the comedy circuit thrives as a result.

We have lofty goals, and we thrive on that.

You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!

You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.