Quotes About Grit

I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

I play the game and I understand what's going to happen; you get banged up. But you signed up for it.

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

There's no dollar signs involved when I'm playing football.

I work in silence.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

The pro keeps coming on. He beats Resistance at its own game by being even more resolute and even more implacable than it is.

The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist.

The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.   This is invaluable for an artist.

What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness.

When we're stubborn, there's no quit in us. We're mean. We're mulish. We're ornery. We're in till the finish. We will sink our junkyard-dog teeth into Resistance's ass and not let go, no matter how hard he kicks.

Only men who do not mind a hard life, with scanty food, little water and lots of discomfort, men who possess stamina and initiative, need apply.

My friend Tony Keppelman snapped me out of it by asking if I was gonna quit. Hell, no! Then be happy. You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful. That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure. FOR LOVE OF THE GAME

All I know how to do is work.

Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying…Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. insights accrete.

They peck a man's asshole out, though God only knows why.

Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.

Working out must have cost him everything he had, yet he never failed to appear. There was a doggedness about him that I admired. I watched him with interest, ashamed of my own interior complaints.

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I have not failed, I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work." (Thomas Edison); "You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up." (James Clear); "Failure is success in progress." (Albert Einstein). No

I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

Stubbornness is one of my few virtues.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.