Jay Cutler on getting back up and moving forward

SportLocation Fitness Desk · 3 Oct 2026

Jay Cutler describes persistence as the willingness to rise after a setback and keep making progress, even if it comes a few steps at a time.

Jay Cutler’s point about persistence is straightforward: setbacks may knock you down, but the response matters. In this seated interview, he says he keeps getting back up and striving to move a few more steps forward.

He calls that stubbornness. For Cutler, success means not treating failure as a reason to turn away; it means returning to the effort after a setback, even when progress is incremental.

The image stays on Cutler as he explains the idea, with the on-screen words “stand back up” and “forward” echoing his account. The focus is not on a training demonstration, but on the resolve to keep going.