Arthur Lydiard Quotes

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.

I am obstinate and I will not give in.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

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

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.

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

Never give in and never give up.

That's how I would describe myself, persistent.

I was always tenacious.

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

I'm very dogged and patient.

I don't give up easily.

I am not the sort of person who gives up.

I've never quit anything in my life.

Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she’s got on.

resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.