It's easy for anyone to claim that they want to fight for what they believe. It's easy to fight for what you believe saying that you will win for sure. It's not easy to win even when doing both, and even harder when trying to get up after a huge loss.
Any man can say, any man can do, but not all of them can persevere. Anyone can have determination for a few weeks, but a few have the commitment to keep going after years and years of trying.
If Clay was to say himself, he could count on the fingers of one hand people that he knew before that had all these qualities.
Actually, he had known just two of them.
One was his leader. Definitely, he was the type of person who would stick to his goals until the day he died. The other he knew just a long time after knowing Rick, and this one was a slave that he underestimated and mistreated a lot of times, but that he acknowledged the potential.