Quotes About Tenacity

Our teams always play hard.

A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.

I give blood, sweat and tears inside the ring and I'm never going to stop working.

I was a born fighter before I got technical, and that's still in me.

One of my favorite things when I fight, even when I used to grapple and do jiu-jitsu, I would face opponents who were better than me technically but I would just stay on them and be as relentless and resilient as possible and eventually the gap would get a little bit closer and a little bit closer and a little bit closer.

To take what I have, they're going to have to have more than skill and technique. It's a lot of heart, a lot of determination. That's just who I am. I'm not messing around out there. I'm not giving it away.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

Sometimes you need to play with a knife between your teeth.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

I like getting my hand raised and I'll take it any way I can get it. Slipping on a banana peel, by the skin of my teeth. By any means, you know?

If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

like cornered rats, the people of Hellion would not go down without a fight.

he was "tougher than a two-dollar steak.

She looked like she could eat glass shards and shit a stained-glass window. He

But I know you. You'll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you'll go because you hate to lose—at anything.

Well, I like a good hater. But that can wait.

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

Wars are won in the will.

He's the turd that won't flush," as Strike put it to Lucy,

Izzy had displayed the persistent adhesiveness of a teasel.