Woody Hayes Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

I refused to take no for an answer.

My purpose will not be denied.

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

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

Ain't nothing going to hold me back.

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

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

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

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.

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

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.

Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

We must be relentless and resilient.

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

You can't count me out.