Boris Spassky Quotes

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

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

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

I'm a stubborn individual.

I'm not soft at all.

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

I hit hard, and I'm hard to take down.

I'm not a little, shifty guy who likes to make moves. I like to be a straight-line guy, run over somebody if I can.

I never fall down. I always fight.

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

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.

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

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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.

I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.

I can be very stubborn, cold, strict, rigid, and - I'd like to think - driven.

I have and always will stand my ground.

I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.