Quotes About Grit

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.

There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

Being in New York as a whole, Brooklyn as well, you can do anything you want. That's by far the best part about New York, besides just the hustle and grit and grind of Brooklyn specifically, but the best food. Anybody you want to get in contact with, odds are if they don't live in New York, they're passing through New York at some point in time.

I love the sport, I'm a fan of MMA, I've been a fan of MMA since before I started it, I was a fan of Eddie Alvarez before I started fighting, so just the culmination of events that have transpired in my life through hard work, through specifically hard work, it's just, I'm happy.

There is nothing more powerful in the world than the human spirit and the human will.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

It's not always going to be there; every play is not going to be a 40-yard gain. You just have to take what they give you. When the opportunity comes, you have to split it and make them pay for it.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of the hard work you already did!

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

When you take someone's best shot in the mouth, there's nothing more they can give you.

Even if I do miss a shot, I'm going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I'm not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.