Quotes About Grit

I really value my days down there in ECW in Philly.

Philly guys have a different toughness from anybody you've probably ever met. That's what I hang my hat on.

If there's one thing I've shown, I'm not scared of physicality. I'm not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured.

You have to put your body through a lot of physicality with wrestling.

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

When it comes to sports, it requires a lot mentally and physically.

The Championship is a ferocious league, physically demanding, and it simply does not allow players the luxury of cruising through.

Wrestling is tough, and it takes hard work - mentally and physically - to do what we do in that ring.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

People don't see the determination behind getting on the pitch every week.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

One thing that you kind of know about the 'Star Wars' universe, but that you learn in a much more impactful way as you get into it, is that living in that universe is hard.

I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves.

My mother cleaned houses. I washed dishes.

again. Fred

I'm going to have to be content with doing

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce

Character is what can do without success.

Don't complain; just work harder.