Mickey Rivers Quotes

The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.

My coaches and I always stress getting better and working on all aspects, so I'm ready to fight and take it to the next level.

I have the most amazing job. I play basketball and keep working at it and trying to get better.

A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn't become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.

Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.

I've come a very long way, especially from my young career. From not always being the best guy on the team to just increasing my work ethic every single year, every single summer. Just seeing the hard work pay off, I think that's what's most gratifying for me.

I'm focused on going out and winning ballgames. Focused on getting better with the team every week.

I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.

We're just going to continue to grow, keep getting better, but I definitely think it's the work we put in in practice.

Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athlete, they have to train and they have to practice to win games. For sure. One hundred percent. You have to be training.

All I've done is work hard to get better and better every single year to become the best catcher I can be.

Put in the work in every day, put in the work in training, and it will show on the field.

I admire Luis Enrique's desire to work and improve.

I'm gonna have some nights when it's not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it's just gonna come. I'm gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything's gonna pay off.

Since I started playing basketball, I had goals. I was going to do everything step by step. I'm proving it, my basketball is getting better.

I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

I have trained on and off with Floyd and his father for many years now and I've learned a lot. His work ethic is second to none and it's great being around him and the 'Money Team.'

It's important for me to work hard and give 100 per cent in training to try to improve.

One thing I did inject was a different work ethic: Guys, no, we don't rehearse once or twice a month, we rehearse every day after work and on weekends, and that's how we're gonna get better. And everybody adopted that work ethic, and it did pay off.

You always have to think in the back of your mind that someone's working harder than you, someone's getting better than you. That's what drives me every day. I always think there's someone out there working harder.