Yeah, I blew up. But people don’t see the other side of it. They don’t talk about how I played on a broken foot. They don’t know about the everyday grind.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
I’m not your average talk-show host. This is a tough grind. Morning TV, you wake up at 5:30 in the morning, and you go all day.
It’s good to be taken out of your comfort zone – it’s part of the NBA grind – a challenge I’m ready for.
If you come from Jersey, you’re tough. You’ve been through the grind.
You constantly have to grind, work harder than anyone else.
Normally, I’m a grumpy old man – whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
My main thing that I like to push on my fans – or even if you’re not a fan and just tuned into my career – you can like the music or not like the music, but I want you to appreciate my come up, my hustle, my grind, my dedication to what I do.
I’d sometimes go to Paris by myself – it was an easy two-hour train ride – to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital.
We won’t look at New Orleans, St. Louis or Memphis again without thinking about making ‘Mississippi Grind.’ We have a lot of memories.
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.
I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.
You’re going to have to grind it out on some drives.
If I go anywhere, and I don’t have my coffee, I don’t drink coffee. When I travel, I carry it with me – and I ask hotels to grind it and brew it for me if I can’t have it in my room myself. I’m dedicated that way.
The only way the confidence comes back is by winning games. You grind out a few results and hopefully with each game you get more confident.
When I decided to become an actor, I realised that every role that we play on screen requires a different kind of prep. I learnt wrestling for ‘Dangal,’ went through an emotional grind for ‘Photograph’ and stepped out of my comfort zone and shed too many inhibitions for ‘Pataakha.’
Everyone has different things they like in terms of board setup. The grind of the board and how it’s waxed – you want to make sure that the speed of the board is right for the conditions of the halfpipe. And then there’s the edges and the bevel of the edge.
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?
The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.
I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it’s easy to lose sight of your dreams.
Hopefully ‘Mississippi Grind’ will be good in the theater.
The glacier was God’s great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
We don’t just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It’s a process. It’s a tough grind that you have to go through that people don’t understand.
When you’re coming up, and you have Matt Hughes, Tim Sylvia, Jens Pulver and Pat Miletich, Jeremy Horn to train with and compete with – guys that have fought in Japan, all over the world – and you see these guys every day, you just embrace the grind and get after it: you have no choice but to succeed.
Guys want to go out here and get the job done. Guys want to fight. We’re going to fight and grind every single pitch and try and do anything we can to help win games.
As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 ‘content snacks’ a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
It’s easy for a player to stand out in two or three days. But the grind of a camp, and just the level of consistency in performance that requires, that needs to happen.
You lay the groundwork, stay on the grind, and then eventually you get those big huge national deals with TV stations that are seen worldwide.
I want people to know my come-up, my grind, my authenticity. I don’t come from rich parents. I just come from hustle.
You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I’m producing a film, I really… I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and… it’s all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.
During the season, you just grind, it’s a cat-and-mouse game.
Keep going. Grind for what you want. Pray. Listen to your mama.
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there’s something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that’s also liberating.
During the offseason, when you don’t have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress – whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you’re doing at the time.
Whenever you ain’t afraid to grind and ain’t afraid to put in that work, that’s a hustle, man.
I think one of the biggest lessons I continue to learn is having humility and being thankful for what you have because everything’s a grind and it doesn’t get easier.
I’m probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn’t appeal at all.
I like playing tennis. I’ve always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I’m just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn’t recover from the day-to-day grind.
I’m not a player that’s going to grind at the baseline – I like to dictate and control the point and try to use my drop shot as a weapon.
My go-to ingredients that are also pantry-friendly start with freeze-dried berries. They’re so potent with both flavor and color and can grind up into a fine powder and give you a smooth frosting or cake.
When you’re in WWE, it’s a part of that contract signing, that grind. You’re on-call 24-7. That’s why you become the star that you are.
Everything from the lyrics to the production, solos to the writing – it’s all democratic. At the end of the day, you know, when you’re all done with the grind – which it is always an incredible grind for us to write records – I think it makes it that much more special to hear the final product.
OT Genasis is my L.A. homie; I’ve seen him grind, and he is still making hits.
I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I’ve had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.
It’s one thing to watch the NBA, but when you have to be there for every film session, every practice, it’s a grind. It’s a lot of hard work.
I love the grind. Gucci taught me to never stop working.
What you see on a lot of televised poker is highlight-reel poker. That’s why I used to like ‘Poker After Dark’ so much. It used to catch us playing almost every single hand… It is more of a grind than people think.
I don’t lecture and I don’t grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
I’ve been the type to just get up and go or I’m finding something to do, I’m on some type of grind every single day.
I don’t care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it’s zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
I’d rather grind slow because when it land in my lap and when I get it, it’s going to last longer than just shooting straight to the top and then the plane crashing because I done shot up too fast. I’d rather grind, figure the steps out and stay up there.
Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
You gotta grind, you gotta make your way. Everybody’s got their grind mentality in Memphis.
Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That’s our motto.
I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
I think what I came from and what I saw molded me into a certain person. Nothing was ever wrapped or a silver spoon, so I don’t think I would know how to live and I don’t think I’d want to live if it wasn’t a grind.
