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“it shows up when you’re scouting guys?) “Adversity. You want to see how people are handling adversity, overcoming adversity, and that can be in different areas of life. That could be off the field, that could be on the field. We know how hard it is to play in the NFL, and we know how hard it is to play in Philly. We understand that there are gonna be moments during the course of the season and moments during training camp when guys are gonna face adversity, and what are they doing to respond to that? So we are looking for guys that have had adverse situations and overcome them.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“Patrick Mahomes “Someone that can make it happen. It doesn’t have to always be perfect. They don’t have to have the right circumstances. They’re someone that can find a way to make it happen no matter what the circumstance is.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“Well, a while back I was reading a book by a guy named John Eliot, who wrote a book called Overachievement, and he said that “confidence comes from your perception of your own potential,” and”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“Grit to me, just compete, man. I can live with the results, win or lose, ’cause that’s gonna happen, but if you can compete and give it your best, that’s all you can ask for.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“Ron Rivera “Attitude. I think it’s all about your attitude, the way you project things, the way you handle things, the way you deal with things, the way you approach things. I talk to our players about attitude every day. And one of the things that happened, and you’ll appreciate this, from 1985 to 1991, we had attitude”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“Doug Marrone “Oh, for me it’s very simple. We talk”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“This might be hard but I’m down for the fight.’ ‘Takes me a long time to learn how to do this.’ That has grit. ‘It takes a long time to go win this game’ That takes grit. So there’s a time limit in my mind, however long it takes . . . It has a time element in my head, like, it’ll take a while but I’ma get it”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“Brian Daboll “Guys that never give in, have a lot of toughness, probably have faced some adversity in their life or failure on the practice field and really didn’t let failure define them but refine them, if you will.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“AJ Brown “Just pushing past a point where you, your brain, or anyone else thinks you can go.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“to our players about it all the time. It’s about being relentless, we talk about intensity, we talk about maniacal work habits and going about it, the determination, teamwork, all those things, toughness, hardness about ourselves, those are the things we describe grit to with our players.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“doesn’t have a vertical-jump number. It’s really more about focus and concentration, and, you know, sacrifice is such a hard term in this day and age for people, but it’s your ability to sacrifice your own ego or your own desires and stay locked in to what’s gonna help your team win.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“I think with grit, I think grit is the ability to keep your confidence when your potential is not being met or when the result is not being met in a particular time in life or in a particular moment, like a game, right? When things aren’t going well, can you continue to play without being distracted, without letting doubts, without letting the doubters, get in and knock you off your game? And I used to think that grit was more of an image, that grit was more of a—it’s a mindset but you almost have a picture of grit because it’s such a tough word. But grit doesn’t have a size, it doesn’t have a bench-press number, it”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take

“Jay Glazer “What does grit mean to me? It means pushing your breaking point so you can do stuff the rest of the world will tap out from when you’re the last dude standing.”
― Big Cat, Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take