Quotes About Tenacity

In sports, you play until you can't win anymore.

There's always people coming behind trying to take your spot and I don't want anyone to take my spot.

There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.

That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.

I've worked very hard to put myself where I am: in the top 10, the top American in an American event - two American events - and I haven't played on stadium court.

I'm very comfortable knowing how hard I have worked in the later stages of my career.

Obviously understand what's at stake, and keep going. You just have to keep going, keep playing.

I got the stamina. I can close.

I have good stamina and good endurance.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I think I got stamina from my dad, although he didn't have a lot of drive.

That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.

You need to be brave to able to stand up to tough atmospheres and against top players.

I stand up all four quarters even when I'm not playing.

I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.