Tom Petty Quotes

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

The fight's the fight.

There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.

Maybe I'm not the best fighter, but I'm always going to fight, no matter who it is.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

I won't give up till we surrender!

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

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

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

I've had meetings where there were literally, like, 12 angry men in a room and me. And even when everyone shot me down, I somehow dug in one more time.