Quotes About Tenacity

Guys want to make a name for themselves, they look at my age and think they will run over me. It's not like that, though. I'm tougher than that.

Guys are usually the tougher, make-it-happen no-matter-what kind of thing.

The toughest thing about being a success is you've got to keep on being a success.

I've built a career in one of the toughest, most ruthless industries in the world. You can't do that unless you're completely with it.

You know what's cooler than being the richest guy in the room? Being the toughest guy in the room.

Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.

I want the hardest, toughest challenges out there for me.

Dolph has got to be one of the toughest men to put on a pair of boots.

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

My dad was one of the reasons I kept Simply Red going so long. I was brought up to stick at things. I was the only songwriter in Simply Red, so I could have toured under my own banner. But I'd developed the name, so I stuck with it.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

I used to either lose in my first or second match or I would go very far in the tournament. So I've been saying to myself, 'Come on, you've got to get through these first two matches. They're very tough. Because afterwards you feel different.' So I'm really putting my energy into getting through to those later rounds.

I had many attempts to become No. 1, and it was really tough mentally to keep believing that it would happen one day, but then it was really tough to stay there because I felt the pressure at every tournament.

It's difficult to keep going the good results, to feel good every tournament, every year in row.

I want to be at the end stages of every tournament that I play - every time.

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.

To win a Grand Slam, you have to win seven matches in a row, and it's very different physically and mentally from other tournaments.