Quotes About Grit

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations.

I fail at things all the time. I'm always being told no. I just get back up and try again.

I'm going to be the one guy diving on the ground for loose balls.

Baltimore is a tough place, but I love every bit of it.

It's not easy to play for Atletico. Talent is not enough, the bar is very high.

I'm not very big. But I've got a big bark and a lot of heart.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

For me, I'm an undrafted guy, so every single year was a battle.

We have to be prepared to play some attritional cricket at times.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

My strength is also my endurance. I can bear anything and everything.

Honestly, I know rematches are always nice, but me beating the champion of my weight class in a competitive fight is nice, too.

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Believe in yourself and never shy away from hard work.

Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.

Relish the hardship.

You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, f**k it.

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle,And it stings you for your pains;Grasp it like a man of mettle,And it soft as silk remains.

There is no such thing as luck in life; it all boils down to pure hard work.

Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon.

Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth