Quotes About Grit

Like, even going to Duke Ellington School of the Arts, like, they slept on me. I think they thought I was talented, but for whatever reason, they didn't want to give me a lot of solos or any type of just love like that. But I don't know. I think that's what encouraged me to grind so hard.

Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.

The Baja is a survival race, and there is no break, but you're not up on the wheel all day in the Baja like you are in Winston Cup or at Indy.

I believe in pushing my records until the wheels fall off.

When in doubt, use brute force.

Whenever I have taken a major decision in my life, I have known that I will have to work very hard.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, 'How did you get to where you're at today? How did you get to where you're running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?'

Wherever you go in Michigan, you find that toughness. I don't know if it's the weather or the hard times. It's like, if I can make it out of here, I had to be super tough.

Being a top performer - whether it's in business or on the athletic field - requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.

Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

I've gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice - and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper.

My mentality is that no matter how good or bad the previous play was, move on to the next one.

I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

I had to earn everything. So to have an opportunity to be a primary perimeter option on the offense is really something that I really enjoy.

So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants... We did some novel remixes of it but, at the end of the day, it was that: Grit and good luck.

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.