Quotes About Tenacity

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

I'm a go-getter. It's in my DNA. If I spend a lot of time lamenting on the difficulties, then it could be distracting.

Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.

We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.

I am enduring. You can disagree with me.

I'm not going to disappear.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

I am disappointed when I lose and don't play well, for example. But it is not so disappointing to lose when you play good. And I never feel I want to put the racquet down and walk away because of losing.

There is nothing you can tell me to discourage me.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Nothing can distract me.

If there's a loose ball, I'm going to dive and see if I can get it. That's just the way you play.

I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

I was extremely aggressive from the start.

There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!

Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

I'd rather blow up than fizzle out. I don't want to fade away and go down the leagues.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.

What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.

When you fall, get right back up.

If you know me, I don't hold back. I take what I can get, and whatever falls.

I'm a hardened old guy. I've been cut in so many ways and dumped on by so many teams, I've been through it all, but I'd do it all over.