Quotes About Tenacity

Winning was everything to me. I hated to lose.

We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.

Even though I will never be evicted again, I am haunted by those times and still work relentlessly.

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

I'm very headstrong and I don't really let too many things get to me.

I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to get up and get on with it.

When I hear people say Patrice never had someone to fight him for his place, I think they have bad memories. They forget very quickly how I got to become Manchester United's left-back. I fought with two great players in Gabriel Heinze and Mikael Silvestre.

To beat a lion, you have to have the heart of a lion.

Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don't care what you say.

My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not.

Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

Hey, I was competitive as hell if you had put me up against anybody in 2002 or 2003. I had a lot of dog in me.

People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.

I think when you do anything at a high level, it's very difficult to just stop and do nothing.

I've always loved to fight. I love what I do, and that is why I've been doing it for so long. I really enjoy fighting and competing at a high level. I love getting in there and getting after it.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

If you want to be successful in a particular field, perseverance is one of the key qualities.

On the credit side, there is a Border virtue which in the human scale should outweigh all the rest, and it is simply the ability to endure, unchanging. Perhaps the highest compliment that one can pay to the people of the Anglo-Scottish frontier is to remark that, in spite of everything, they are still there.

People who have suffered every hardship and atrocity, and who have every reason to fear that they will suffer them again, may submit tamely, or they may fight for survival. The English and Scots of the frontier were not tame folk.

Where the Determination is, the Way Can Be Found

La voluntad no es más que la determinación inflexible de llevar a cabo lo se ha impuesto.

Never have they been broken through.

Therefore am I more determined than ever to carry through