Quotes About Tenacity

The best way I can describe the feeling is a Finnish word, "sisu"—the mental strength to continue to try even after you feel you've reached the limits of your abilities. I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is.

Most of my ideas were rejected and I got used to it. One can get fond of almost anything, even rejection.

She always fought, as Sonia Ardakani noticed, 'tooth and nail for the things she wanted in life'.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

In life, it's not what you hope for, its not what you deserve, it's what you take.

I've been defying the odds my entire life.

I like to be against the odds.

My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either.

To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.

I always go against the odds.

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

If your best offensive players go down, all you can do is hang on.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it.

One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.

One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.