Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you're doing. I wasn't a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.

I like working on the pitch, staying focused.

For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.

If you work hard at something, you can forget everything else.

If you're going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness, and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it - you can't just talk about it.

Throughout all of life's little interruptions and distractions, I prided myself on keeping my work focused and relatively unscathed.

I have to work hard and give my all in games and training sessions.

It's important to spend time with your work. That's when you see it, when you have a feeling.

I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.

When we won the 2009 World Cup in Australia, we flew economy, shared hotel rooms and had a 10:45 P.M. curfew.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.

Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I need to do. There's a lot that goes into this - diet, preparation, assembling the right people around you, sparring partners, coaches, etc. - so I'm not enjoying anything.

Nothing is more important to me than the work itself. If I feel I am getting swayed too much, I take a step back… My focus is also on the performance.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

Forget yourself and go to work.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.