Quotes About Grit

If living was easy then everyone would be doing it.

Keep going until it seems like a bad idea, then go a little further.

When you play the Grand Slam, you have just to give everything you have.

Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That's our motto.

I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on, you don't start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don't. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who's just happy to be on the team.

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

I'm a lot smaller than most guys, so I have to make up with grittiness and show I can work the hardest, show I'm strong on my skates and show I can push some people around.

I was a smaller kid when I was growing up so I had to learn some defensive skills. I had to grind a little bit and win points by scrapping it out.

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

I'm a workhorse. I'll take anything and everything I can get, and I'll do it with a smile on my face.

I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.

When you see me at the show, I'm smiling because I want you to know I can do this all day.

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.

Mit Zähnen und Fäusten muss man den Genuss des Vergnügungen des Lebens festhalten, welche uns unsre Jahre, eins nach dem andern, mit starken Klauen wegreißen.

Truth isn't handed *down*, brother. You beat it out with *hammers* and anneal it in your own *blood*.