Ben Zobrist Quotes

Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

I want to be the best. I want to be counted on by my teammates. I want to be counted on by this organization and the fans. I want to be someone they know is going to bring it every single week. I prepare to be the best.

My style is I work hard at it. I feel like I'm prepared every day.

Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.

All I can do is work hard, prepare the players properly, give them everything I've got and they give me everything they've got.

I just come every day, do my stuff before the game, work hard. You work hard, and it pays off.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

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

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

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.