Mike Ditka Quotes

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

At the end of the day, you can have all the talent in the world. But if you don't put in the work, nothing works. The engine doesn't start going. It's a car without gas.

If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.