Quotes About Perseverance

I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete each and every day to get better.

I needed to go through certain life experiences, and not just on the court, to make me into the competitor that I am, and also the person.

Sometimes a guy is going to get you here and there, you compete. He is getting paid just like you're getting paid, and he is a competitor just like you are. But if a guy can just stop me a whole game by himself, and I can't do nothing about it or I'm fatiguing or I'm not strong throughout the whole game, then it's time for me to hang them up.

Everything along the way has made me the competitor I am.

I'm a competitor in anything I do, especially boxing.

I've been a competitor all my life.

I was always sort of a competitor.

I come to work every day - I'm a competitor.

I'm a competitor, you know. I don't want to play just to play; I want to play to win, and I wanted to win it all.

Growing up, I always got 'She's a man,' or 'She plays too hard,' or 'There's just no way that she can be that good because, you know, a girl can't do that.' And I struggle with it a little bit. I'm like: Well, am I going too hard? And then I just realized, like, I'm a competitor.

Any competitor, I think, wants to be the best every time they're out there.

Obviously, I'm a competitor.

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

It's tough to tell a group of competitors that you'll get it next season.

Probably the No. 1 characteristic, if you want win championships, you've got to be great competitors. It's got to come naturally.

Politics is like a running race and a true champion will run the race with the competitors and emerge victoriously.

I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.

The last thing I want to do is be complacent.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

I never get complacent with anything.

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

I don't want to be complacent, ever.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.