Nadia Comaneci Quotes

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

Golf's not an easy game. You keep working at it and, sooner or later, something good will happen.

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

You only get better by playing.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

Do your best and keep learning - that's what I believe in.

Play as much as you can. That's what I had to do because of my inexperience. And don't get frustrated.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

If you work hard it's only a matter of time before things start to go right.

My game is getting better all the time. I'm consistently working hard, and I feel like I'm always doing the right things.

Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, 'I wish I could play well already - or just stop.' But it's too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.

Success doesn't happen overnight.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.