William Feather Quotes

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

Every step of my career was hard work.

You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

I'm always hustling.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.