Quotes About Tenacity

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I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

Sometimes you have a bad day, and you're like, 'I'm over this, and I just want to play tennis,' or do another sport that doesn't require any other variables, but then you have a good day, and it's like, it's amazing, and the success makes up for it.

I'm like an old vaudeville act. They'll have to pull me off the stage with a hook.

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

I got ice in my veins!

Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.

For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

Ten minutes passed. A woman in a business suit walked by outside and climbed into her car—or at any rate, I assumed it was her car. If not, she was a very smooth car thief.

Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected.

F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.

But she was determined to do it, independent of all the circumstances and obstacles; she was this kind of person. Once she decided something, she was determined to do it and she did it.

Try and fail and try again.

You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again.

I'd say determination is the single most important quality in a startup founder. If the founders I spoke with were superhuman in any way, it was in their perseverance.

We eat. We sleep. We keep going.

I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.

I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

The only constant I can find is hard work.