Quotes About Grit

I've just always played with a big chip on my shoulder, and that keeps fueling me.

I've had a chip on my shoulder every year that I've played.

We like to play with a chip on our shoulder.

There's always going to be a chip on my shoulder.

I had a very big chip on my shoulder - I won't even lie to you. I had a very large chip on my shoulder.

I always want to find something to get you to play with a chip on your shoulder.

I think I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, but I think that's good.

I've always been a player who played with a chip on my shoulder.

I like challenges, and Darlington is the biggest challenge on the circuit.

Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.

There are two things I want to be able to know when I walk into a fight, or with anything in life. And I'm not Superman, I'm not even that great at fighting. Those two things are: I have done everything in my power to prepare for this and I will not quit, no matter what.

I ain't no superstar.

My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor.

I am very grateful to the people who have supported me through my journey and the ones who haven't, have only made me stronger.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

A boxing gym is not supposed to look like a hotel or a condo. It is supposed to be rugged.

I don't like going into a clean gym. A gym is supposed to stink.

I remember after the surgery, the next day, my mom was like, you know, 'Don't get your bandage dirty. Don't go outside and throw the ball.' But I came back inside with a football in my hand with a bloody bandage, but I knew I felt better. And I was just happy to play.

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

You should never surrender, never give up.

We never quit. My mom instilled that attitude in us, that never quit, never surrender.

life was a stone cutting and grinding...

You don't get no trophies for livin the life you born into. It just be your job, and you lucky if you can do the work set out in front of you and not fret if it seem puny. Chaney, Little Altars Everywhere