Quotes About Tenacity

You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

I've said this before, I would fight my grandmother if I had to. And she's dead.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

The greatest thing about fighting a guy like Dave Rickels: He always comes to fight.

When you play me, I'm going to get right up in your grill and let you know it's going to be a long day. It's going to be physical. It's going to be something you don't like. It's going to be hell.

The grind never ends.

You're going to have to grind it out on some drives.

I'm more of a grinder, just get out there and get the job done.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I can't take anything back. I've just kept grinding and kept working.

You just have to keep grinding.

Tough, gritty, those are things that have been in me since I was a little kid.

No ground gained was ever relinquished.

VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

Even the greatest player of all times loses sets or is down in a match. It just shows that, you know, a win is never guaranteed. It shows all of us that we have to work for every point, fight for every point no matter what.

I'm strong enough to guard the big guys and have enough heart to lock them down.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

That's a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut.

If I am to choose two words that best describes myself, they are 'self-esteem' and 'guts.' Guts helped me become a global model.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

I'm just a small guy.

It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.

We want to show the world Haiti can endure.