Quotes About Tenacity

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

I'm happy I was able to stick through it and was being very disciplined with what I had to do, because I know eventually hard work will pay off. It's only a matter of now just trying to make sure I get matches under my belt and I feel more and more comfortable playing matches.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

There's something to be said for perseverance. We've been sticking it out a long time.

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

I've learned that sticking around counts for something.

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

Don't look forward to me putting on the trunks and knee braces to get back in the ring and stomp a mudhole in somebody and walking it dry.

If you really want to go after something, you have to keep hammering at the stone whether or not the first hit or the 100th hit breaks the stone. You've got to believe that the stone is going to break.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

eSpeed took the worst that the world could dish out, and it still stood and performed.

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

I always say that I know I'll be done playing basketball when I stop fighting on the floor. If you don't play with that edge or that competitive spirit, you're just another player out there. I can only speak for myself, but when I don't play with that fight then I'm just ordinary.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

I'm someone who likes to respond to a challenge. I never give up or stop trying, even if things were a little bit more difficult at the beginning.

You don't want the fight to stop on a cut or something like that. You want to finish the fight. You always have the idea that you have the chance to stay in a fight, because one blow can end it all.

I never stopped working.

I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.