Quotes About Tenacity

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

What I find in terms of the small success that I've had, with no backing, just doing it off my own back is the way I wanted to do it - I wanted to prove that you can do it on your own.

I still hold that pen; I still write my own story. So it's going to take a whole lot more than Samoa Joe running me over. And it's going to take more than Randy Orton kicking my face in. It's going to take more than Erick Rowan slamming my head through a table. You guys keep trying to put me down, but I will not stay down.

The main quality I have is my mentality because I never gave up - I never, ever give up. I have been like that since I was young. I knew I had to take my chance when it came. Nobody gives you anything. You have to go and take it and this was the way I think.

I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

My grandmother's number-one rule was that once you start something, you don't quit. From a young age, she never let me give up on anything.

As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.

You're going to play a lot of tournaments during the year, a lot of traveling. If you have a good set of mind, you're committed to the work, you want to do that work, and you definitely got to do it. Doesn't matter if you have four, five, six losses in a row, that doesn't have to discourage you to stop all of a sudden.

I've worked hard ever since I was that 18-year-old kid who travelled to South America and India to play small tournaments in the hope of cracking the top 200.

The fundamental rule of the business traveller must be nothing must stop you from getting there.

I have to do two or three hours of treatments every day just to be able to step onto a tennis court.

On a 60-mile trek with a 200-kg. bergen on my back, I felt my ankle break. Some might have given up. I broke my other ankle to even up the pain. And carried on.

To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up.

It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

Greatness is not a term of success, but of endurance.

From this point forward, you don't even know how to quit in life."~ Aaron Lauritsen, '100 Days Drive

The qualities of a successful man are tenacity, perseverance, courage and the will to win

Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.

I succeed in almost everything I do. My secret is persistence.

A winner keeps playing until the winning shot.