Quotes About Drive

If I played the game any other way, you wouldn't know my name. You wouldn't care enough to hate me because I wouldn't be in the NHL.

Whenever I'm on the court, whenever I'm between those lines, I'm as competitive as anybody else.

I want to win as much as anyone else.

People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much more I want to accomplish. I put more pressure on myself than anyone else can.

My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.

I love trying to be the best at anything and everything.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.

I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.

I don't feel like I need or want to apologize for feeling ambitious.

I enjoy my work, and I take what appeals to me.

The appetite and fight for winning a game outweighs any other thoughts.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

when we love something, emotion often drives our actions.

This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.

The world belongs to the few people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty." I

But my story is as much one of perseverance and drive as it is of talent and luck. I willed it to happen. I took my life in my hands, learned from anyone I could, grabbed what opportunity I could, and molded my success step by step. Fear of failure drove me at first, but as I tackled each challenge, my anxiety was replaced by a growing sense of optimism. Once you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, other hurdles become less daunting.

Why not have it.