Quotes About Tenacity

I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that's the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That's just proven. There is no other way.

I think to give everything I have on court is the best thing to do to win tournaments.

There can be tournaments that can be elusive no matter how well you play in them, but there's no point in thinking, 'Well, it's just not to be' until it's done and dusted.

My goal is to be competing to win tournaments that I'm playing instead of just content with making a quarter.

I'm entering tournaments every week trying to win.

Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

I'm not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.

I wouldn't want my corner throwing in the towel no matter what. I wouldn't want my corner to do that.

I'm not someone who throws the towel in, although I think there are many times when I could have and should have thrown the towel in, and nobody would have thought any worse of me.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

I've always given 110% for Northern Ireland, for my country. I'll never throw in the towel.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

I'm not going to throw the towel in just because things are not going great for the first time in my career.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

If the going gets tough, you stay in there and take your beating like a man. That's what we sign up for, and that's all I meant when I said my corner don't throw in towels.

I decided that if I was going to continue in track, that I didn't want to lose, that I wasn't going to lose.

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Obviously I've been traded around, but at the same time I know my game, I know what I bring to the table and I know what I'm looking for as a player.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.