Quotes About Tenacity

I don't really celebrate victories. Kobe Bryant just kept playing. Michael Jordan just kept playing.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

I've always wanted to become a grand-slam champion and to become the best in the world. Without that, the victories aren't as sweet or the defeats as motivating.

Fight for victory until the very last minute.

You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.

Submitting is always the most important thing to me. Victory first, but with a submission is what I always want.

I have a strong point of view, and that's a double-edged sword. It can be a phenomenal characteristic in terms of getting things done, but it can also mean I will be relentless in my pushing for my point of view.

you don't need Mom and Dad's permission to take charge of your own life. Find something you want to do, and don't give up on it. You can start tomorrow.

Severin is infinitely more experienced at business. However, I tried to compensate with pure stubbornness.

Thank God you're so stubborn." Devon laughed. "That's the first time you've ever said that to me." "And the last," West assured him.

I'll have you know," Mrs. Church said in amazement, "it took our two stoutest footmen to bring that crate into the house. How did two young ladies manage to carry it away so quickly?" "Sh-sheer determination," Helen wheezed. "All I want in this life," West told Kathleen, "is to see you try to pry that crate away from those two." "I wouldn't dare," she replied, giving up. "They would do me bodily harm.

because that's what you do, you keep trying even when you know the effort is in vain. As

We attack the problems. They don't attack us.

It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.

If you can\'t do what you want, do what you can.

It wasn't about being brave, or toughing it out, or any of that air-punching motivational language; all that was required in these moments was to keep plodding on, quietly, resolutely, without fuss or drama.

Tackling is more natural than blocking. If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

There is no animal more invincible than a woman

Once a Pot Noodler, always a Pot Noodler.

Live as big as you can, with what you've got.