Quotes About Tenacity

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

If I get a role, it's because I fought for it.

I'm the type of fighter who has never made an excuse. I fought with a broken rib, broken leg.

Patrice Evra has always fought for his place.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

I'm a person who fought for what I have.

I've even fought with a broken hand, against Brian Magee.

Any of the shows I've ever fought on, they always want to have me back because I always have the fight of the night performance.

I get lots of fouls on me, but it is no foul because I am physical. Because I don't go down, that is the problem as well. But I will keep playing my game. Why would I change? It's my game.

I am not fragile.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I showed that I can not get frustrated, that I could come from behind, that I can trade, if need-be.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.

Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.

You're going to tell me even if I've got to shake it out of you.

My great concern,' said Lincoln, "is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." Thomas Edison had ten thousand failures before he invented the incandescent bulb. Edison made up his mind that each failure brought him that much closer to success.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...

Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling its hunger, by the throat crying its thirst.

If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.

Frank Miller

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.