Quotes About Grit

I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

Strength and struggle travel together.

You think this is a walk in the park, that it's all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.

I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.

If Life were easy, it would not be hard

What is courage but strength in the face of fear?

The difference between success and failure is perseverance.

The only thing we need to learn - Never Giving Up. Everything else will happen.

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice.

I love people, and the hustle.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

I make love to pressure.

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

If you want to stay around here like death eating a soda cracker, that's your business.

Life's a bitch, you've got to go out and kick ass.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash