Diego Simeone Quotes

When I want something, I stop at nothing to get what I want, even if it takes a while.

I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

I have always been a very determined and stubborn person about what I want.

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.

It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour.

The one mindset I have is this title - title or bust.

The teacher would say, 'Not everybody makes it as a footballer, so what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' The teacher would say, 'But not everybody makes it. So what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' Every year that happened! Nothing was going to get in the way of me being a footballer.

I know what I want, and I'm relentless in achieving what I want.

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

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

I love going after what I want and not stopping till I get it.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

When I get something in my head, it's hard for me to just let it go.

Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I'm going to do something until I get it right.

When I have my mind set, that's what I'm going to do.