George Karl Quotes

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

To be somebody you must last.

You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

I've held the title for years and years.

There's a lot of guys that are able to perform for a short period of time. It could be a week, it could be a month, it could be two months, it could be one season. It's doing it over and over. And being consistent was something that watching Patrick Roy all these years, that's what he was. He never had down years.

In order to win a championship, you've got to be consistent.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

Winning is hard. Repeating is harder.

I'm going to be the coach at Florida as long as they'll have me.

If you look at my career, it's been nothing but consistency.

After I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl, it made me start to think that the only thing that marks greatness is consistency over a long period of time.

In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.