Quotes About Grit

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

Push yourself to the limits, and you'll be John Cena, you'll be C.M. Punk, instead of complaining about other people that have done so, so much in the business.

It's just like, we know how to push ourselves to the max.

I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

I enjoy being pushed to the limit. Sometimes you feel like you are about to break mentally, but that's what I enjoy.

I feel like hard work pushes you over the limit and makes you who you are.

You cannot get bogged down by failure - you have to keep pushing.

You can't try to make something crazy happen when nothing is there. You've just got to keep pushing.

You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'

The concept of getting out of my routine, mixing it up, and pushing myself to live the grittiest life is something I try to incorporate every day.

The U.S. Open just takes so much discipline. You have got to be a great putter and just kind of let things roll off your back.

I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.

Everyone knows I get off the floor, and I fight until the finish.

My personality, if I was healthy enough to play, I'm going to play! I felt that at 75, 80 percent, even if I had a sprained ankle, if I'm out there on the floor, I could be Deion Sanders.

I hope they'll say I was one of the hardest-working basketball players on both ends of the floor.

I try to leave everything on the floor every single game.

I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'

Nothing's by fluke and nothing's been given to me.

Folks don't always win the first time they run.

The teams who win things are those who, when the going gets tough, pull together, put their foot in, win tackles and second balls.

It's brutal out on the football field.

We always said it's not suit-and-tie on the football field.

You don't have to sell the fact that a football player has toughness.