Quotes About Grit

I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

Some people just look at opportunities and say, 'Maybe something better might come along; let's wait and see.' But you don't wait. You just grab it and go after it.

You work so hard to get to a level and you need to grab your chance with both hands.

Some of the life lessons that my mom has taught me is that the road is not for the fastest or the swiftest, but it's for those who enjoy it to the end. Just telling you that life is not pure grace. It's like a marathon.

Man, I fought since pre-K. I was small for my grade, but I was tough.

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

My grandfather Urey was my hero. He worked three jobs. He had a dry cleaner's factory job in the day and a dry cleaner's factory job at night and when that was done with that, he mopped floors in a restaurant.

I didn't have much but my mum and grandma gave me as much as they could, but we weren't a rich family and we had to work hard for what we got.

My mother dropped us off at a foster care centre when I was just two. But my grandmother ended up fighting for us and winning custody of us. We didn't have much, but she gave us character.

Sometimes a 1-yard gain on third-and-1 is a big play. People take that for granted.

I just think that my road has been so difficult to get where I'm at that I don't take anything for granted.

Somebody showed me a fight where somebody had gotten cut on the forehead and was just gushing blood and kept going throughout the fight. I couldn't grasp the concept that anybody would want to do that.

Just to get out, put it out on the line each and every night is a great feeling for a basketball player.

I let my fighting do the talking, I don't have to put on great show and dance to make it bigger than it is.

I love the grind. I think it makes you better in all facets of life.

The grind never ends.

I like to grind and not think too much about the good stuff. I like to focus on the stuff I need to get better at.

Embrace the grind because it was once taken from me.

You're going to have to grind it out on some drives.

That's what the grind is, doing all the little things knowing that something may not come out of it. It probably won't. But the goal is to get a shot at it.

I don't really feel like I done made it all the way. I feel like, 'OK, we did this. Then we grinded enough to get to this point. Now we gotta grind enough to get bigger and bigger,' you know?

It's definitely a grind. Come to the gym early, leave late.