Valentino Garavani Quotes

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

I just keep working.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

One of the things that I like to pride myself on is being the guy who sees the game through till the end.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

That's something I pride myself on, playing every single game.

I think people appreciate that I've been around so long, and I never gave up on myself and just kept grinding, and eventually I made it to the top.

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

I have to be patient, keep performing, and be consistent.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

Each fight of my career I take just as important as the last. And I will keep it that way.

It is always in my nature to work like you are going to be at the club forever, for your life.

All you can do is put in work. That's what you can control, the effort that you put in, and that's what I'm doing.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.