Scottie Pippen Quotes

It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

Everybody wants to be a first round pick.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not born superstar athletes ... Many of them started out just like many of you-playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends. But they stuck with it. And I tell this to my girls all the time. I mean, you get to the point when ... things you enjoy ... start getting hard-that's when you know you're getting good, and you have to stick through it.

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

The person that works the hardest wins.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.