Quotes About Grit

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

If you have mental toughness then on days when you go to Hull, the pitch is bobbly, the wind howling, you end up with something. It's as much about that as silky soccer.

I shined shoes; I did windows.

A lot of the comics called me Bronco because I wouldn't get off - if I had to do an hour, I would stand there, even if it wasn't going well. I knew comics that would climb out of dressing room windows after they'd done their first spot.

If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

All winners are edgy. Guys that are pushing themselves are edgy. It's the old saying we have in Kentucky: I'd rather have a guy I have to say whoa to, than giddyup.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

My key to surviving and winning is hustle. I think once you lose your hustle, you lost everything.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

It is so easy to be pleasant and charming and positive when life is going swimmingly well. You are winning. You are healthy. You are happy. But what happens when life throws darts at you?

There is no better feeling than coming into a tough environment and winning.

There are tons of talented people, and they might not even be the most talented, but they're the ones who were so resilient and learned in loss that it was winning by losing.

They didn't say all wins in the NBA are all pretty.

'Roadies' tests your mental and physical ability in the most challenging way, and I have gone through this.

Part of the attraction of the SEAL teams was the incredible tests that it offered.

I was at Texas State in 2005. I'd never coached quarterbacks and never called plays a day in my life. David Bailiff hired me and we go 11-3, and Barrick Nealy breaks all kinds of QB records. I grinded. I got my hands on every drill tape I could. I went to clinics. Every brain I could pick, I picked. And I wasn't too proud to ask the kids.

Thank goodness I was blessed with a hard head.

We didn't always have what we wanted or needed, we had to struggle. That is why I also thank God for my mum - she is the one who worked hard to pay for my first football boots.