Quotes About Grit

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

I was always tenacious.

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very hard. I wouldn't change that for anything.

I tend to latch on to things and not let go.

If I can't do something and excel at it and do it well, I have a tendency to give up on it really easy.

Tennis has given me soul.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

Tennis is very tough.

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

I love the sport of wrestling because it's a testament of your will and what you're capable of as a man.

I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.

My whole thing was getting in there with these guys and really pushing their limits. Testing their toughness and their desire.

Robert Muchamore

Try an' try," he said, "but when it comes day's end, I can't wash the pig off me. And your mother never complains. Not once, in all these years, has she ever said that I smell strong. I said once to her that I was sorry." "What did Mama say?" "She said I smelled of honest work, and that there was no sorry to be said or heard.

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going for no other reason than to continue. Because that's all there is to do.

My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.

Porque si la poesía te transporta al cielo, la novela policiaca te introduce en la vida tal como es, te ensucia las manos y tizna el rostro como el carbón al fogonero de los trenes del sur.

You're not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don't think you are. But you'll have the stubborness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.

There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you.