Sally Pearson Quotes

I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.

My will power has always been very strong. If I want something, I'll get it. I've had no trouble keeping my head on my shoulders, nor do I have any chips on there.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures.

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

If I want something, I go after it.

I've always been very driven and knew that to get where I wanted to go, I could never give up.

I want to always keep going. I don't want to ever stop.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

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've unfailing ambition.

I don't need much motivation.

You go after your dreams no matter how many obstacles. You want to go forward. That's what I did.

I suppose when people are criticising you and saying that you are not really worthy of going to such a club as Liverpool, it gives you a little bit more drive and more desire to prove them wrong. And that can only help you in the long run: make you a little bit tougher mentally.

I guess you can say that my unwillingness to accept failure is what drives my success.

Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that. If I want something, I'm going to get it. When people tell me that I can't do something, it just motivates me more. For me, it makes me smile, because I just want to prove everybody wrong.

My mother has taught me to be self-reliant, independent and ambitious. She has taught me to chase my goals even though nobody believes in you, you need to believe and you need to fly.

I'm a go-getter. Everything I say I'm going to do, I don't stop until I do it.