Skylar Grey Quotes

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Life is tough, but I'm tougher.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I've always believed in survival.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor, and I'll get through anything people can throw at me.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

For me, Jersey represents going through what you can go through and still surviving. That's the cool thing about people from the Tri-State area. We're fighters. We're survivors, and we're edgier than anyone else on Earth.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

Buck up or stay in the truck.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.