Quotes About Grit

You've got more courage in your little finger than most folks have in their entire bodies, my own child. I

asks us to endure. Thus I would suggest that you

The world is not pretty. It's only the hard work of some people that makes it so.

unchastened

Persistence creates luck.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish.

Get your wits about you and take the juice out of every day, however bad

You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

All of the great fighters have had losses but are still considered among the greatest ever. The undefeated record is not as important to me as facing the toughest challenges out there.

I know we're not going undefeated. I know I'm not going to throw a touchdown every game.

The city of Philadelphia is all about the underdog.

When you're the underdog, you just lay low and work.

I've always been an underdog.

I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.

I've been the underdog my whole life.

I think I am the underdog.

I've always felt like a little bit of an underdog at each level - never the tallest or strongest or even fastest. But one thing I've always tried to do was to play harder than anyone on the court.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder. I always view myself as an underdog.

I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips.

I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.

We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in our life.