Quotes About Tenacity

Unless people die from it, a little diarrhea isn't going to stop us from having our live fish.

I think, as a professional, inside the cage you can fix anything.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

I've been competing my whole life. Who cares about the spotlight?

I'm a ballplayer. Whoever picks me, I'm going to show up.

I'm the type of person, I'll fight whoever.

When I get in there, I try to really make sure there's no quit in me and that whoever I fight is going to have a long night.

When me and Mike Tyson were around, we played king of the hill. Whoever comes to the hill, you get your behind whooped. We don't pick and choose. I fought guys when I had fractured wrists and ribs, bad backs, I didn't care. I was the king of the hill; Tyson was king of the hill. When we left, people were trying to get the 'most money fight.'

Whoever is in that ring, they are not enough for me, and they can't handle me.

Whoever you put in front of me, I'm not going to back down.

Whoever I am up against I will give everything, like always.

I've fought my whole life. I've fought whoever they put in front of me. Whether it was in boxing or in the street or whatever, I've never backed down from a fight.

There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.

I want to constantly get better. Why not just keep fighting? Until I get told that I can't anymore, then I'll move on.

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.

You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth.

We got a thumbs-down from every label. But you gotta keep the faith, man. You gotta hang in there and be tenacious.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.