Quotes About Grit

I've been fighting in people's backyards my whole life.

The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.

I can't tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.

Basically, I guess they just thinking I've been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I've been winning my fights on heart.

I like to fight tough fights.

Carlos Tevez is a quality player. He fights for every loose ball. He loves retrieving it. He's a fighter on the pitch.

You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.

For most of the competitors, winning the Dakar has little to do with the standings on the final day and everything to do with making it to the final day.

Being in the final four of 'Tough Enough' has honestly been the best experience of my life. It's truly been an honor.

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

If I lose the ball, I want to be the first one trying to win it back.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

People just see the shine. They don't see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks... I ain't finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

I'm a Weeble. Remember Weebles? The toy whose tagline was, 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down?' I'm resilient. Oh, and I work really hard.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

As a kid, I loved Air Force Ones - but they were so expensive. I always had to save up for ages to get them. Now I can call the Nike guy and be like 'can you send me ten pairs?' and they'll be here the same day.

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.