Quotes About Tenacity

You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

I punish the guy until the referee pulls me off or until he says 'no more,' and he taps. I don't want to leave any doubt in his mind that he had a chance.

When I played, you had a lot of enforcers. You would go to the hole, get knocked down, and the referee would look at you and say, 'Get stronger, get up, and keep playing.'

Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.

When facing bowlers or throw downs, it is not possible to feed the ball in one place at all times; therefore, tennis ball practice comes in handy.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

It's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.

I just try to hang in there and try to focus every point.

It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.

I can give anyone a hard time.

Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

I did it the hard way, I fought everyone I could and I would not have it any other way.

Nothing beats hard work.

I was never afraid of hard work.

It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.

I never, ever objected to hard work.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I just hated to lose.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.