Clint Dempsey Quotes

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

You have to work hard if you want something, and my parents instilled that into me when I was really young.

I've always been a guy that worked hard.

I always knew I had to work hard.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

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

Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.

I work every day like I was running for re-election and the race was tight. That's the only way I know how. That's what my mother taught me.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

We've never minded working hard.

I know only one way: work hard.

Watching my family work so hard has been so inspirational, and I think I really got their work ethic.

The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.

Just work hard, and things come to life. I am a living truth of it.

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 want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.

My dad taught me to work hard and to be the same guy every day. If that's going 100 miles per hour and working hard, then that's what I'll do.

Hard work is just something that my parents, when I was young, they made sure that we knew what hard work was and that it was okay to work hard and okay to sweat.