With my intensity and athletic ability, I think that would be a natural switch, ... I'm just as fast as almost all those defensive ends out there, and as athletic, or more, than half of them. And my tenacity supersedes all of that. There are a lot of guys at that position who have gotten paid that are a bunch of slaps, and I know I could do better than them.
Quotes about tenacity (16 Quotes)
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
I don't think we shot well (38.7 percent), but I think we played well and yet it took us 30 minutes to shake them, maybe 35 minutes to shake them. That's just by their tenacity and how hard they played. Providence has a young team. The three guys who I think played really well for us happened to be seniors and that makes a difference in college basketball.
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness.
But he earned particular attention in Hollywood for his tenacity in making the grand-scale A Passage to India, ... the most difficult thing of my life.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them.... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
I think my first and foremost advice is to have a very realistic understanding of what making movies is how much work it is, how unglamorous it is, how much tenacity you have to have.
The Jews struggled and stuck together. Their tenacity kept them alive. The fact that my book was a part of this struggle is my greatest achievement.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
From its inception, the Tomcat has been the icon of Naval Aviation with its striking appearance, speed, formidable lethality, and versatility. It is more capable today than at any other time during its existence because of the innovation, dedication, and tenacity of every maintainer and pilot who has ever been associated with it.
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitlers mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
If I can give you one step where you move forward, then you'll take the next one and the next one. It's attitude and tenacity and risk-taking and resilience. If you can home in on those traits with people, you can give them hope and guidance. Can you change their lives Occasionally. Is an hour short You bet.
Jujitsu is blood, sweat and tears. It takes hard work, perseverance and tenacity to be successful.