Quotes About Tenacity

If you'd asked me when I was 18 if I'd be happy being in the top 100 male players for 10 years, I'd have taken that like a shot. As it turned out I was top five for a decade.

I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

Always give everything for the team, always chase the ball, never accept defeat.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

I would defend, just so long as I play.

If the championship has to be defended, the championship has to be defended.

I'm not too complicated. I don't think I'm great on the eye. I work hard. I try to outwork defenders, and that's it.

When I look at my career, I was really about defending.

It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.

That's one part of my game that never leaves - the defensive part.

We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.

I defy anyone in the world to trade with me.

Everyday I'm just going to continue defying limitations.

Once I am in, I can demolish any side because that is my strength.

A country's future depends on its ability to bite back.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

I won't let anything destroy me.

Fans were booing me at one point. I just kept working, that's the main thing. I'm not going to let that deteriorate my game.

I believe in the power of determination.

Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

I learned how much determination I have and that no matter what the score is, anyone can come back.

I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it.

Problems just make me more determined.