Quotes About Grit

Problems just make me more determined.

Detroit is a hard city.

You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.

That's what Stay Hyped is all about, is 'I can go when others can't, I won't tap out when others will.' It's kind of just living my mantra.

Working at a fulfillment center is definitely not the most glamorous job. I know because, in the early days, that's what I did, day in and day out. I had a tape gun in my hand, and I taped boxes.

I started off doing street team work for No Limit and Def Jam. I was the waterboy, the scrub. I was passing out demo tapes, and nobody wanted to hear them.

I'm a grinder. I've been grinding my whole life. Whatever task is in front of me, I'm going to try to accomplish it.

All you can do is focus on the task at hand and if you keep doing that it will get you through.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

Sam believes in taking life in his two hands and squeezing and pounding it until it gives you something, even if it's just a little bit. But the important thing is to keep squeezing, keep pounding, keep working.

Muhammad Ali said, "Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

you can develop all of the wonderful traits you need to succeed—focus, humility, toughness, and passion—but if you quit when things become difficult or when you become discouraged, they all are worthless.

All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.

The endurance required should have been too much for us, but across these Nebraska plains endurance just begat more endurance.

Rita Williams-Garcia

The only heroic act one can fucking well pull out of the bag in a situation like that is to get on with life and derive some joy from the very simple pleasure of remaining alive, despite every attempt being made to kill you.

I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon." "Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. My advice to you, sir, is to eat what you can, spit out what you cain't.

Don't stop at the first obstacle; have endurance to keep on going and you will succeed.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.