Hank Aaron Quotes

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

The biggest thing is, if you want it still, you'll do everything you need to do to make sure you extend your career.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I'm gonna prove that I can stay in the game and have some longevity.

When an actor even after ten years of experience puts in effort and treats every day of her work as the first day in her career, she becomes an asset.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Keep on doing what you're doing.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.