Clint Dempsey Quotes

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

You always need the hunger to play in the first team.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

You want to win everything you are in.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

I'm very passionate in life, and I'm very determined.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

I've been competitive from day one. It's in my nature. Whether people recognize that or not, I don't know how they can't. I'm not gonna go out there and try to hurt somebody or win by all means. But if it's up in the air, I'm gonna try harder than you to get it done.

You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.

The will to win is the only thing.

If you have a good squad, and the hunger is there to win something, you can do it.

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

What you have to have is motivation and you have to have drive.

People seemed to appreciate how much I wanted to pursue something I loved. They seemed to understand how much ski jumping meant to me.

I have the type of passion that I don't think a lot of people have.

Always, you have these objectives when you are young. You think you can be the best, and that's what I have to be because, if not, I'm not playing football.