Quotes About Tenacity

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.

surviving. She's a fighter. A rebel, in a way.

When everything else is gone you'll still have the French Quarter, cockroaches and Cher.

I'll NEVER be beaten!

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.

Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.

All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

I understand that the results I've had in my career, or I'm having now, they are very good. And that gives me confidence, of course, but I do not feel invincible.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.