Bobby Bones Quotes

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

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

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.

My duty, what I have to do, is try my best in every training session, leave everything of me on the pitch. That's how I can go to bed at the end of the day and be happy with myself.

I found people that were willing to push me. I was like, 'These are my goals. I need you to get me here.' I don't need any excuses. I won't make any excuses. I'm over making excuses.

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

If you don't have that ambition you start to be sloppy and that is not what I like to be.

For me, it's not really about showing the coaches. It's about being accountable, being accountable for my own actions and continuing to do what I've been doing since I got here.

I have to improve to get to where I want to get and to be as good as I hope to be, so I keep working on it.

I have a goal to be the best player every time I touch that floor. Just be the best me.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

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

I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.

I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.

I'm about being the best.

I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.