Quotes About Grit

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

The nature of the game is pain.

I can take more pain than anyone.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

If I've learned anything in the last seven or eight years it's that my career flies by the seat of my pants and that every time I'm booked for something, I'm ill, and anything - like a TV opportunity - I treat as my last ever one because it's maybe my swansong.

I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.

If you think I'm a walk in the park, come walk in this park and see how easy it is.

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

Get knocked down seven times. Get up eight times. —JAPANESE PROVERB

Frau Lange, her chins and her dog were waiting for me on the same chaise longue, except that it had been recovered with a shade of material that was easy on the eye only if you had a piece of grit in there on which to concentrate.

The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.

Money's scarce Times are hard Here's your fucking Xmas card

I want people who visit my Instagram account to realize how hard I've worked for everything I have now.

I grew up with very little. I remember vividly using buckets of water to shower.

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Getting cut four separate times really never stopped me.

I could be two sets, two legs down but I wouldn't think that. I take each leg as it comes.

Back when I got in the league, it wasn't a sexy game. It was more of a 'beat you down' game - you know, make sure you were strong.

I was never blessed with any real ability but I loved the game and made up for anything I lacked with sheer hard work.

Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.