Joe Lieberman Quotes

The early days were really difficult because it was constant no's, I didn't have an agent. I always knew that I had something to offer, but it just felt like I could never get someone to give me a chance.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.

It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.

I've always been a player who played with a chip on my shoulder.

If Kurt Angle's leg fell off, he'd hop twice as fast to make up for the loss of mobility, man. There's no quit in him.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.