Grinder Quotes

You're used to doing one thing, and you turn around and turn into a grinder -- 3 yards a carry. - Clinton Portis

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

We're just grinders. You're not going to see us do a lot of flashy things. - Bill Plein

We're in the middle of a meat-grinder. - Dan Robinson

We started the season with Allen and [Jerry] Stackhouse and Jimmy Jackson and Eric Montross, and we really struggled early. We were [6-19]. Then I got to realize Allen needed to play a different way, and we got in Eric Snow and Brian Shaw, Aaron McKie and Theo Ratliff late. After the All-Star break, we were about .500. We set up a culture that enabled us to be pretty good from then on. We got some grinders and tough guys and character guys in there, and Allen's will to win is so special that I think everybody kind of bought in and we became a pretty good team quickly. - Larry Brown

We played pretty darn good after All-Star break. We were about .500 and we set up a culture that enabled us to be pretty good from then on. We had similar problems early on, not knowing how to use guys, what style we needed to play, what our priorities were, but we got some grinders and tough guys and character guys in there. - Larry Brown

We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders. - Bob Boughner

We just kind of kept grinding. I was pleased with that: that idea about being a grinder and not getting discouraged and everything's not perfect, but you believe in yourself and you don't blink and you don't flinch. That's got to be part of our M.O. as much as our schemes. - Al Groh

We got off to a great start and kind off let it slip away, Jimmy made some great putts and showed a lot of guts, what a grinder he is. - Tiger Woods