Amy Ray Quotes

Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.

I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.

Winning starts with beginning.

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

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

All great achievements require time.

I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.

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

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

I have worked hard to get where I am.