Quotes About Tenacity

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

You've got to be greedy in this game and to keep pushing.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.

I've always been pushy as far as the business goes.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

When I get hurt, I fix it and go back fighting.

I wouldn't say I'm the best player. On the competitive level, I am the best competitor. I don't think there's anybody like me. I play my heart out on both ends of the floor, and I give my all.

I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.

Everyone knows I get off the floor, and I fight until the finish.

My personality, if I was healthy enough to play, I'm going to play! I felt that at 75, 80 percent, even if I had a sprained ankle, if I'm out there on the floor, I could be Deion Sanders.

I hope they'll say I was one of the hardest-working basketball players on both ends of the floor.

I was even treated as a 'flop,' a contract that doesn't pay. But I kept working my best.

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I'm gonna prove that I can stay in the game and have some longevity.

I don't think you can ever get bored or lose focus as a competitor.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

Folks don't always win the first time they run.

All I really knew how to do was put one foot in front of the other.

You don't have to sell the fact that a football player has toughness.

Defeat is forbidden.

I enjoy putting teams under pressure, forcing turn-overs and just being a pain really!

My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.