Quotes About Grit

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

The fact that life is a grind is what sharpens many a man's wits.

...and we take everything heartily and naturally in the right way, — for even mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Life is rough. If it were smooth, we'd slide right through it without noticing. A bumpy ride teaches us gratitude and perspective.

What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called "snirt.

Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

But, Christ on a tricycle, Roarke, this is going to be a pain in my ass.

Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

Strength did not exist unless it was tested.

My dad grew up with straight-up no running water. He slept in a twin bed with his two sisters and his mom, like 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' style: like, feet at the head, feet at the head alternating. And then I think his dad slept on, like, a bed of newspapers on a floor in their apartment.

I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.

I used to work as a logger, which is the lowest of the low, you just had to type up what happens.

We talk a lot about having high-character guys and high-IQ guys, and I think that's one of the characteristics of those types of people or players that if and when something doesn't go their way, their reaction usually is to come back and fight harder, dig deeper, do more.

I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.

I was a luxury player. Having been pampered at Tottenham for so long, I went into League One and had to graft and learn the ugly side of the game. I grew as a player.

I'm going to be that gnarly guy that gets in somebody's face and makes it ugly. I'm a bit of a grinder.

I learned to absolutely love the feeling of winning a tough match on a tough point or figuring out how to come back when I was down and win ugly. Walking off the court with a W just made me so happy.