Michael Dirda Quotes

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

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

The only plan was to persevere.

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

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

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

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

I don't give up easily.

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

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

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

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

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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.

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

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

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.

What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.

I was always tenacious.

We must be relentless and resilient.

You can't count me out.

I will never give up, and I will never give in.

Quitting is not part of my DNA.

I am not the sort of person who gives up.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.