Quotes About Tenacity

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.

But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.

I don't get tired.

People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

I don't care who's in front of me; nobody is going to stop me from winning the world title.

I'm hungrier than all of them. They didn't put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don't care what it takes - I'm not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I'm not going to lose it.

If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.

This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title.

I don't know if I will take the UFC title, but I will die trying.

I'm still here. I'm still gunning for that title. I'm not going anywhere.

The main thing for me was when I won my first title in Kuala Lumpur. That was the biggest step that I made. I made the Top 100, and I've stayed there ever since.

Because I've won one Grand Slam title, I feel like I have a good chance to win more.

Look, it doesn't matter who you put in front of me or how many girls out of that locker room you want to throw at me. I'm taking them all out - and never losing this title.

I bump into a lot of people that have similar problems that I have but less titles or magazines than I have, and they just challenge their adversity with the same tenacity, with the same enthusiasm, with the same will to succeed because life is one and you've got to take advantage.

When you start the match, you forget that you are No. 1, you have all the titles. You just have the battle ahead in front of you.

I joined the Indian Police Service as a tough woman, a woman with indefatigable stamina, because I used to run for my tennis titles, etc.

I want to win singles titles.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.