Quotes About Grit

In any fight that I go into, I don't like to complain about stuff because at the end of the day, a fight's a fight.

Something I think that I'm good at is that I don't complain.

When you play on bad surfaces, you have to show your character and keep your concentration for the whole 90 minutes.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

As a kid, my goal was survival.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.

I've always had the spirit of a survivor.

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

I have a real survivor's instinct.

In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.

When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I'm not going to grind back.

Honestly, it is not all about attitude; it is all about heart. You can have the attitude, you can have the swagger, you can talk your way, but it is all about heart.

Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling.

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man.

Life is not perfect. I've had my share of sweat, blood and pain.

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

Hard work is just something that my parents, when I was young, they made sure that we knew what hard work was and that it was okay to work hard and okay to sweat.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.