Bernard Hinault Quotes

I don't plan on slowing down. I'm going to keep steamrolling through everybody.

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

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.

That's part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.

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

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

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

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

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

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

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

I refused to take no for an answer.

Just call us the band that wouldn't die.

Be aggressive... That's the type of pitcher I am. I go as hard as I can for as long as I can and see where the cards fall.

You can't stop me, so step aside.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

Ain't nothing going to hold me back.

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.

Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.