Matthew Quick Quotes

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

I won't give up till we surrender!

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

In the end you’ll see you won’t stop me.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I am not capitulating.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

I am very tenacious.

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

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

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

I’m not going to leave like a whipped dog. Period.

I do not intend to step aside at anyone's request.

I was always tenacious.

You tell me I can't do something, I'm going to do it.

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

You may defeat me in a final vote, but you'll never get me to quit.

I will not back down to anyone.

I never give in to pressure.