Bessie Coleman Quotes

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

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

I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

You can't count me out.

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

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

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

I'm really incredibly stubborn - you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me 'no', if it's something I really want, I'm just going to push harder.

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

'Cobra Clutch' was to let the world know we ain't going nowhere. We got the game in the cobra clutch.

So you know, the people that do know me, they know I can be very stubborn.

I'm a stubborn individual.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

I don't care who's in front of me; nobody is going to stop me from winning the world title.

I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily.

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

Gary Neville never seemed to know when he was beaten, and Ashley Cole never gets beaten.

I never settle.