What True Grit Is Grit is courage and resolve; strength in your character. I believe I showed grit during our fall soccer league. We were playing Delhi’s, high school, seniors. I happened to be playing Left defender. While in the second quarter, the ball was being dribbled down the left side of the field, by a 5’10”, 250 pound high school guy. I hustled up to him and went to punt the ball back down the field, but he brought his foot up to boot the ball and clipped me just above the shin guard. My body hit the ground immediately with searing pain. I clutched my knee and glanced down. The dark purple and blue bruise was already forming. The coaches assisted me off the field. I sat out for a quarter, but let them put me back in for the last quarter.