Greg Rutherford Quotes

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.