Quotes About Tenacity

You make me want to stab you. I have that effect on many people. How is it you're still alive? I'm hard to kill.

But then I didn't run from my challenges. I met them straight on and bashed my head against them, until it left me hurt, bloody, and dazed.

It doesn't matter if I'm the first. It only matters that I'll be the last

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

Young players are more hungry because they have not achieved what some of the older players have.

Young players are always aggressive and unafraid. That's their weapon and I can learn from that.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

As I was always the youngest, I had to fight for everything.

I'm the youngest of four boys. My whole life I had to fight. I had to get down and do things in order to secure my spot in the household. So, coming onto the court, it's nothing different.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Sometimes things don't go your way, but you get up and keep going.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Hold on to your dream, no matter what it takes.

Follow your dreams. It's always too early to quit.

There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.

You go after your dreams no matter how many obstacles. You want to go forward. That's what I did.

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

I definitely followed him. Coming up, if you wanted to see some fights on YouTube, you pulled up Fedor. His tenacity, aggression and ability to get out of bad positions and bad situations - he used to be in those freak-show fights against guys who were 7 feet - he'd figure it out and get it done.

The resilience, tenacity and zeal of our valiant air warriors is a source of pride for every Indian.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.