Quotes About Tenacity

perserverence w/o exception

Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

THE SEVENTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS I will persist without exception.

Success is in the trying, not the triumph.

If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on? A Your fingers. 'But we have to write this book,' says Terry.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.

Most of the time the only difference between winning and losing is not quitting.

Even though I was 110 pounds wet in high school and had no attention from any major schools, I always had a little bit of fight in me. There was always a dog in there, too.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.

I don't like to lose, no matter what I am playing. Football, tennis, head tennis, no matter what. If I am playing something, I am playing to win.

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

Whatever happens, I'll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

Whatever I tackle I like to attack a situation, hit it head on, go for it.

Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.

I believe in pushing my records until the wheels fall off.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

My saying is to 'Ride until the wheels fall off.'

When in doubt, use brute force.