Shaggy Quotes

A champion must be ready at all times.

It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

One thing I was taught growing up is it's only pressure when you're not prepared. And you're just not working hard. Those are two things I do all the time.

In my early years, I would be in the studio till 11 P.M. Come home, have bath and dinner, and write music till 2 A.M. I would wake up by 4, sit down to do my music, and be at the studio at sharp 7 A.M.