Steve Largent Quotes

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.

I think me having one hand made me work even harder than many other people.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.