Willie Mays Quotes

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

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.

I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

I have so much respect for athletes like LeBron James. I get motivation from them because I know how many hours they put into it. It takes a lot of hard work and drive.

Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

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

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there's nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

I always put my boxing first.

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.