Quotes About Grit

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.

My mum was working as a cleaner at some hotels to make extra money so she could pay for her degree. I'll never forget waking up at five in the morning before school and helping her clean the toilets at the hotel in Stonebridge.

I was waking up at 5 A.M. when I was 9 working. I know that I'll only have to work harder if I want to make it to where I want to be. But I'm definitely not complaining.

It doesn't matter if we get a hit, a walk, hit by pitch; just trying to grind out at-bats.

I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.

Maino is an artist that I feel walks what he talks - you can tell what he raps about and what he's been through is very similar. You've got a lot of rappers that rap about what they've heard or seen, but I think Maino is one of the rappers that has actually lived it.

Let's say I have a new respect for guys who come off the bench every day. That's not easy to do.

I never had a single big break - because few do online.

I'm not 6'3, 6'4, but I got a big heart, and that's it.

Being tough is probably the biggest thing that NFL players are known for, having that kind of toughness.

The biggest thing is to keep getting up.

Bisping will fight to the bitter end but does not love the fighting.

I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.

I don't want easy success. It's boring.

I can play with pain. It doesn't bother me.

I'm not bothered how people feel. This is a real tough sport.

Boxing's been good to me.

Adrian Clayborn is somebody that relentlessly brings that attitude, energy, and toughness.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

You either create something there on the street, or nothing happens. It's brutal. But if you go through that for two or three years, it really toughens you up.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.