Erik Spoelstra Quotes

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

I'm just working every day to improve.

I'm just trying to work on my game and get better. That's all I can do. Keep working hard, keep trying.

I want to have the strongest work ethic.

You have to work hard each day and try to figure out what's going on and try to get better each day.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

My leadership mentality is to outwork everybody else around me, and hopefully the guys respond well to that and work harder for themselves.

You know those days at the office when you used to come in and not really do much? You don't get days like that as an entrepreneur. If you don't do the work you need to, nothing happens that needs to. It's that simple.

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

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

When the time comes to work, I work.

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.