Larry Bird Quotes

Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to be. Nothing was ever handed to me.

Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Accolades are there to congratulate you but also to make you understand that it's not over. You now have to continue trying to improve the craft and keep going. It's not something to rest on.

Success is not a stop sign.

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

There's always a new thing happening to me that's even more extraordinary, so pressure gets harder. But I like it when it's hard. Anyone can do it when it's easy. When it's hard and you can do it good, you're proud of yourself. There's going to be more pressure as the years go by, that's for sure. But I think I'm a hard worker and I'm ready for that. As long as I believe in what I'm doing, the pressure is okay with me.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.