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Grit Quotes

No one ever wants fight of the night. Every fight I've gone in, I want knockout of the night. I want to be in and out quick. Sometimes, these guys just have a lot of grit - they're highly trained, and I just can't get them out of there, so I get fight of the night.

Fight Night Grit Sometimes Want Out

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Stand Grit You Down Numbers Know

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

Think Grit Admire Oyster Self-Doubt

'True Grit' is one of the few books my sons let me read to them - and paid attention to - when they were younger.

George Pelecanos

Me Grit Attention True Paid Books

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Alexander Cockburn

Day Grit Remember Every Day Back

I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves.

Work Think Mechanic Help Grit Sand

One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

Orison Swett Marden

Farm Grit Born Country Human Being

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

John Hickenlooper

Baseball Action Loved Battle Grit

Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

Angela Duckworth

Grit Risk Eggs Carry May Basket

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

Marriage Man Grit True Sticking

I couldn't imagine 'True Grit' in 3D. I think the idea is sort of absurd.

Think Grit True Imagine Absurd Idea

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

Guitar Grit Kind Nothing Excitement

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

People Questions Grit You Want Ask

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

Life Family Love People Face Grit

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

Sports Pressure Grit Been Metaphor

Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.

Success Intelligence Grit Predict

I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.

Love Death Tired Grit Irony Like

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Angela Duckworth

Life Grit Living Marathon Sprint

Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.

Angela Duckworth

Job School Feel Help Grit True

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

Loyalty Best Me Writing Grit Human

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

Hair Name Grit Sand You Teeth

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Mountain Me Solitude Climb Grit

On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.

Music Mistakes City Grit Loose

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

Book Thought Enthusiasm Grit True

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