Quotes About Grit

Mentality beats quality.

My mentality from the day I started playing sports was that you get up, you dust yourself off and you do it again.

I think that's one thing to have, a strong mentality and another that you have to work hard for the things that you have.

I am mentally strong.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

Some people are mentally strong.

You can be physically strong, but if you're not mentally strong you're not going to cut the grade.

We have mentally tough players coming out of Villanova.

For the most part I consider myself a mentally strong player.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

I'm lucky, I'm lucky enough that I am strong mentally.

The main thing about an endurance challenge is that you have to endure. Not so much physically, but mentally. Your mind gives up first. Not your body.

I've always worked my butt off physically and mentally.

Being mentally strong is something I've always been very good at and sometimes you just have to dig a bit deeper.

I try to be strong mentally.

Believe me, I can be tough, physically and mentally.

Only guys who fight for a living know what it's like to be hungry and beaten and tired, mentally, all the time. The average person has no understanding of what that is and what that could be.

In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.

Together we can build the Michigan we believe in, because we still have what we need most - the strength, the talent, the vision and the grit of the incredible people of this state.

I wanted to go and I wanted to drive the miles for no pay, I wanted to set up the rings, I wanted to set up the chairs, I wanted to go to training six-seven days a week for hours upon hours and blow myself up to where I can only work on instinct. I wanted to sleep in my car. I wanted to do all of that.

'Never give in' was my mindset.

If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.

I think about my dad and how tough he had it. They treated us a lot better in our minor league system, especially with the food. But the bus rides were no joke.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.