Quotes About Grit

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

I'm not much to watch. I run, I fight, I'm not elegant like Raul, Figo, Zidane or Beckham.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

I'm a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

I will always find a way to find a positive from things.

I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

That's one reason fans take to me. They like the battle side of it. They look at me and think this guy shouldn't be on the pitch, he's just bulldozing his way through.

I consider myself a player who fights and gives everything on the pitch. Those who know me and appreciate those values understand what I say.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

I started coaching in the Interregionale league in Catanzaro. There were pitches with no grass; at times, we had no water, no training equipment. I had to do it all myself.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.

My parents taught me not to complain, to always go forward. They taught me to always finish what I had on my plate. It seems ridiculous but these are little things that in the end make you stronger.

My parents have never given me anything on a plate.

I am glad that I had to work my way up and was not handed anything on a platter.

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play 162 games. It's a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.