Quotes About Tenacity

The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.

The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I'm fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it's a 25-minute fight, I'll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.

You know, the one thing you never lose as a sportsman is your competitiveness.

I know some people count me out, but that's the one thing about myself, I never count myself out.

I'm a man who has failed in many areas, but the one thing I don't want to do is quit.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

Not coming from a film background, be it a teeny-weeny role or a big role, I have done it with a lot of dignity and fought my way through. But the only thing that kept me going is that I am the sort of person who doesn't take no for an answer. If someone rejects me, I will be out to prove that person wrong in my own way.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up." "Your

My best advice is this—by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.

persistence beats stupidity

If it can be done, then we'll do it. If it can't be done by us, then no one can do it." Self-Assess

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Illegitimus non carborundum" (Don't let the bastards grind you down!)

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Don't withdraw, don't surrender, don't give up.

Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word 'impossible' is not in his vocabulary.

Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Success seems to be connected with ACTION. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

Broken to it, I, too may be; bow to it I never will.

You never get to the face because the body's so good." (Referring to Steffi Graf)49

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

never give up when things are hard