Quotes About Grit

I came into this game a wrestler and that was pretty much it. I was tough, I could take a guy down and beat him up. I threw a good overhand right.

I never thought I was the greatest wrestler, but I never gave up.

Football players cannot be wrestlers. Wrestling is a much tougher sport.

Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don't know if I like the word 'crazy' here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most people.

I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.

There were a lot of tough guys who were tremendous wrestlers.

Extreme rules, hardcore wrestling - whatever they want to call it - was born out of a necessity to survive.

Wrestling was the hardest thing I've ever done.

I've always liked watching wrestling, but once you are on the other end of it, you develop a certain passion for it and respect for it, and I would like to accomplish everything I want to before calling it quits.

You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

One thing about wrestling, it keeps you humble.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

I think I had a really hard-working and authentic wrestling style, so people liked the way I was - that I was a 'no-quit' kind of wrestler - and I was very realistic and credible in my style.

For me, it was the early independent era of AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Daniel Bryan that inspired me and they were in sports halls and grimy little venues having fantastic wrestling matches and that's what appealed to me about wrestling at the time.

My two main trainers were John Dahmer and DJ Hyde. DJ Hyde mainly taught me how to be tough: I mean, the beatings that he used to give the students as far as wrestling initiations go were as tough as they come, and I'm thankful for it.

Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.

Wrestling is in my blood.

I think a wrestler can say something from fighting, from wrestling.

I had wrestling in my blood.

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.

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You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.

At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you.