Daily Grind Quotes

I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete each and every day to get better.

You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...This is fantastic. I'm in heaven.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I don't have time to think about my pre-politics days. I am so very busy.

Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

I'll miss the competitive side and the camaraderie of being around the players and competing each and every day.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

It's a hard game, boxing. You're up every morning running every day, you train in the afternoon, you're dieting, you're up and down in weight and it can wear you down.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

I go to the gym, do my work, go home, switch off. It's just the way I like it, to be honest.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

My confidence comes from the daily grind - training my butt off day in and day out.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

I come to work every day thinking I have to earn my job, and I really believe that. I don't have a given right to my job; I need to prove my value in my role every single day.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

This great game of football is about challenges every day.

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.