Quotes About Grit

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

I enjoyed my time as Raw Co-Owner. Actually I got beat more! I got beat up a lot as Co-owner but it was ok.

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays. Just once he'd like to see a hero like himself -- not a quitter, but a man who did face facts and give up gracefully when pushing on was foolish.

That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.

Scott Westerfeld

And they never have to win; they just have to keep not losing.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

Sometimes, never let them see you sweat, is truly bad advice. The work of an individual who cares often exposes the grit and determination and effort that it takes to be present. Perfecting your talk, refining your essay and polishing your service until all elements of you disappear might be obvious tactics, but they remove the thing we were looking for: you.

When people quit, they are often focused on the short-term benefits. In other words, "If it hurts; stop!

No, the reason that most of them didn't have a chance is that somewhere along the way they quit. They didn't quit high school or college or law school. Instead, they quit in their quest to be the best in the world because the cost just seemed too high.

Do the hard thing