Jerry Rice Quotes

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

I try to do my best.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I'm one of those guys that's going to show up to the field and try my best.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

No man fails who does his best.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

You just go out and try to always play at your best.

On some occasions, it is every footballer's dream to play for the national team, but if you don't reach it, you always need to work harder to reach a higher level, a level you wouldn't reach if you didn't have this as a goal.

All I can do is keep doing the best I can, and every opportunity I get, I'll try to put balls in like David Beckham.