Quotes About Tenacity

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

He's an animal, Diego Costa is an animal!

The competitive spirit never dies.

I'm a bit like a diesel engine, you know.

I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move.

That's what Stay Hyped is all about, is 'I can go when others can't, I won't tap out when others will.' It's kind of just living my mantra.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.

Getting through these camps, sometimes you're held together with paper clips and bubble gum and tape. You just kind of get in there and you make it work because if you pull out of a fight, you don't get paid.

If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can't play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.

You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.

I've been written off more times than some of the government's tax returns but I just keep plodding along.

When you fight for something, you fight the good fight. You go for it, you never stop. You get knocked down, and you get right back up. That's what we need to be teaching these kids. For that matter, even some adults.

What I bring to the table to help my team is that I'm never going to quit.

At any level I'm not built with complacency. I think you see that in the way I play. The people that manage me know that, my teammates know that. I'm not built like that.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

but if you get a chance to be the baddest and strongest, always be the baddest and strongest.

double-crostic.

By singleness of purpose, by steadfastness of conduct, by tenacity and endurance—such as we have so far displayed—by this and only by this can we discharge our duty to the future of the world and to the destiny of man.

Sam believes in taking life in his two hands and squeezing and pounding it until it gives you something, even if it's just a little bit. But the important thing is to keep squeezing, keep pounding, keep working.

Does he bite?" the driver asked. "He even bites me," I said. He picked a fight with whatever the world brought him, and that day it happened to be a Lincoln. I don't think he would have hurt the driver, but he sure would have messed up a nice suit. The next week he did it again, and the next.