Peter Carroll on GRIT

This thing about grit's real, and it is about competing and it is about pushing yourself. It is about striving, striving to be at your best. And what's really exciting about this is nobody else controls this but you. You are in control of this. You are the one that has the power to make yourself as valuable as you can be. You see, you have this opportunity to create your own value here in the classroom, here in your fraternity, at your dorm, as you get your jobs and have your opportunity. There's a lot of kids graduating from schools that are complaining about there's not enough good jobs. Well, you know what I say about them? They don't get it. They don't understand. It isn't about the quality of the job. It's about the quality of the job you do. You see, you are the one that goes into that workplace, regardless of where you start, and shows to them that they can't operate without you because you work too hard, because you care too much, because you're going to do the little things. You're going to do the extra job that somebody else wouldn't do. Bill Russell, a wonderful basketball player who's visited with us, lives in the Seattle area, learned it from his father. He said, you're going to do $3 work for a $2 job. That's the idea. And that's creating and being in control of your own destiny and your own future.