Quotes About Tenacity

Do you need an aggressive streak to thrive? You could say that. A lot of the great players have that mentality.

I thrive on adversity.

I thrive on impossible odds - always have.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.

I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor, and I'll get through anything people can throw at me.

My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now.

I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.

The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

For me, with fighting, I'm not going to have any regrets. I'm throwing down to the very end.

Ever since I was little, I was changing the pace. I think I was just getting bored on the court, so I was trying anything. It's been working ever since. I've been practicing it, and it's obviously throwing off a lot of players.

The player I am, if I drop a ball, keep throwing it.

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.

If you're good at what you do regardless of what is thrown in front of you, you will make it work.

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

My very first scrimmage at Kansas, I got dunked on so hard by Tarik Black that I almost quit. Tarik dunked on me so hard that I was looking at plane tickets home. This guy was a senior. He was a grown man. I didn't know what was going on. He got his own rebound and dunked over me so hard that everything went in slow motion.

When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

But really I like things tough and coming through a tight game against the best.

If you're not getting nos you're not trying.

When the world says, "Give up," hope whispers, "Try it one more time." —Anon