Quotes About Tenacity

I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

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Is your "retirement plan" to go on and on without stopping?

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.

My goal is always to qualify, maybe get a couple rounds in, but now I've beaten a couple top players.

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left - or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

I mean, I just try to run hard all four quarters.

I want to be able to press a person all four quarters of a game until he just can't take it anymore.

I was never going to be one to just go away quietly and get on with things in the shadows.

Americans never quit.

You're not a loser in anything until you quit. Don't quit.

You may defeat me in a final vote, but you'll never get me to quit.

The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

No one ever made me quit.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

You play football, rugby, tennis. You do not play boxing. When a sportsperson is in a game, when it gets too much, you quit. But in boxing you can't quit. You have to be taken out.