Quotes About Drive

I hope people don't get angry at me when I do start yelling and stuff, because I promise you it's all that competitive energy, and I want to win with every last ounce in me.

There is a chip on my shoulder, both shoulders, yes sir.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

Do I think people who need a good opportunity become harder workers sometimes? Yes.

I always feel like I have to keep going. You can sit back and say, 'Maybe I can stop.' But then you're yesterday, and I love tomorrow.

I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays.

The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.

I don't know where my career is going, but I know that when I'm not active, it really drives me crazy. So it wouldn't have to be a film with dance in it, but hopefully I'll be able to be somewhat active with the projects that I do or, if not, I'll have time on the side to do my yoga.

You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.

There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't drive, and the people kind of rub me the wrong way. It's just not home. You know? It's not New York. It's not... my town.

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the world who has a strong drive to testify, which I can do because I have the privilege of living in New York with enough food to eat and shelter.

In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

I want to encourage young people to get up off the sofa and get out there - as long as you want something hard enough, you can do it.

When you find something that makes you feel that only you can do it and nobody else, then you automatically want to do it.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.