Quotes About Tenacity

I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

Wherever the fight is, I'm going to be fighting.

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

Wherever you go in Michigan, you find that toughness. I don't know if it's the weather or the hard times. It's like, if I can make it out of here, I had to be super tough.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Being a top performer - whether it's in business or on the athletic field - requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.

Never... never... whether you are five or 100, never give up. It's never too late.

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!

When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

I can take anything. You can whip me and it won't bother me.

I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

There were a few times in previous fights where I was hurt. It's just a matter of not giving up, if you know what I'm saying.

To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It's not going to fall in your lap.

As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.

I'll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I'm the man.

I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.

After turning pro, I was feeling a lot of respect to everybody actually, especially top players.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.