Og Mandino Quotes

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

In every sport, there will be struggle and obstacles, but a victory which comes easily is no victory.

I've had a lot of bumps in the road, but I kept my head down and kept working.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.

Sometimes, when things aren't coming easy, you've got to fight through that.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

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

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

I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

I like struggle.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.