Andy Grammer Quotes

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 grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

People's hustle in the Bronx is real.

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.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

The street is a room by agreement.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

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 survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

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

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

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

It's the essence of sport to be able to swallow tough things up.

I've had to be tough my whole life.