Dave Grohl Quotes

I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

There are so many people telling you no, but if you love what you do, no one can stop you.

After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be.

It's not difficult to move forward when you have nothing to lose. Right? At the time, I had nothing to lose. So, even when people were trying to degrade me, I couldn't let them take the only thing I had, which was my dream. I had to move forward and, thank God, I kept trying.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.

A true champion will fight through anything.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.