I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

Well I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

If there's no fire there's no scream. If there's no scream then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man a great role model.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

It is not the going out of port but the coming in that determines the success of a voyage.

The path to success is to take massive determined action.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined worthwhile personal goals.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time which is passing with strength which is only too limited.

These individuals on steroids does it enhance their career does it give them a little more strength a little more stamina a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

I come from hardworking determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness his physical condition his technical ability and his mental strength.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.