Quotes About Tenacity

The Andrade I knew in Mexico would do anything to get to the top and even more to stay on top.

One thing I can say about Michael Jordan, nothing was going to deny him to achieve what he wanted to achieve. That includes the Bulls' front office, the league, or whomever. The man just had an undeniable spirit about himself.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

I'll fight for Milan.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

I've always been bloody single minded, which is probably why I've been in the game so long.

'Never give in' was my mindset.

Just knowing you can get into a cage and do that is part of how the mindset of a fighter can be applied to pretty much any situation really.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

I got to fight every second, every minute and every round.

Everything yields to diligence.

He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.

He taught me that if you've got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete.

He's capital.

cortejar la obstinación e ignorar la inspiración con el fin de que esta última, despechada, se rindiese y librase sus primeras luces.

It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.

Get through he must, and would, no matter

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. —Meridel Le Sueur writer and activist

It's not even a full court shot. Blindfolded. Underhand. With a bowling ball. ~ Shelton

tightened my grasp.

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

We just decided to. We said if we were going to end it, we had to earn our way out. We had to pick up every single stone and look beneath it for a solution. We vowed we weren't walking away until we'd exhausted every possible option.