Chuck Knox Quotes

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Short-termism is no good: plans must be carried through to the end.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

I don't stop when I am tired; I stop when I am done.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

If you really want something, you just have to promise yourself that you won't stop until it happens.

When it comes to business, diets, working out, writing, or any other dream, success isn't about how high you fly. Success is about how high you bounce.

You spend a lot of time as a coach going through every possible scenario. That's the kind of level of depth and versatility you have to go through. When I did that, things started to really fall into place.