Quotes About Grit

I've said it continuously in NXT: There is no one who can outwork me.

Hard work is the most important. Conviction also, but real hard work.

You can't count me out.

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

The only thing that counts is hard work.

In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.

I enjoy hard golf courses.

I always leave everything on the court, every game. Tell me how many other players can say that.

One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.

I can speak for myself personally, I loved ECW. I loved everything about it. I loved the crew, I loved the fans, the style, working there.

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Too many cry babies in this game.

I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight.

You can see the love I have for the sport. Blood, cuts, scars... I love fighting. I'm going to do it for as long as I can.

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That's my passion. That's how I give to the game.

You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything.

I feel now that a tackle or an interception high up the pitch is as nice a feeling as creating a goal for someone else.

You do not have time in international rugby to stop and think, 'This is tough.' It's more a case of, 'Let's crack on.' Where's your next job? Fill a hole for someone who has just made a tackle?

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.

I really am genuinely happy for guys that get paid and have success when they actually work their tails off.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.