Quotes About Grit

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

You win when you quit trying.

It's never about who's the fastest, strongest, toughest—it's always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.

Ozzie's head remained

Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

Bear them we can, and if we can we must.

There was no joy here. There was only the sad business of survival.

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

I've been working really hard in this business for a very long time and I've had my share of ups and downs - and to be honest, most of them have been downs. It's a motivation point.

Losing is hard on all of us regardless of rookie or veteran.

You'll encounter difficulties at any job, and the best way for me to get through them is via endurance.

I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and died.

You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.

Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

And that was the thing: you couldn't just stand there gawking at the world. A car slipped by. Then another. It was as if she'd stood frozen by the river of the world and gratefully stepped back into it, resuming her place... The world waited, cold, grim, alive, beautiful. There was no saying no to it.

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.