Duke Snider Quotes

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

Love your work. Work hard for it.

If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it's that you have to love what you do. And that's not just true for sports.

To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.

In each profession, you need to feel passion for that in order to give it your best performance. Football is my passion.

If a footballer is well motivated and has various things to motivate him every day, he will keep achieving his goals.

I train hard, every day, not because it's my job but because I love football.

Football is still the most important thing. It keeps me focused and driven every day and that takes me on to be the best dad, son, and friend.

I love to work in football, so for me it's not work. I'm not here first in the morning and last in the evening because I think I have to prove I'm busy or working hard. When you want to do something extraordinary you have to be like a freak and to be something like a workaholic.

I love hard work, energy, feeling involved.

If you do what you love, you're going work your butt off every day.

Within the girl's game, you have to be motivated to be part of this sport.

I always want to play and to win because football's my passion; it's my life. That's why, every time we win, I'm really happy.

Out-working your competition is a lot easier to achieve if you're passionate about what you are doing.

What I want to advice our fans, not only in the Philippines but anywhere in the world, is to always give your all in anything that you do.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

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.

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.