Reid Hoffman Quotes

It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?

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

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

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.

Personally, what goes beyond sport, you have to put to one side. You need the best to win trophies.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

I've been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities - one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.