Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There's a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don't happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.

It does take a lot of time to establish yourself with your own hard work.

Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.

My path might not be the same as everyone else's, but I had to find a way. It's not by chance. It's not by coincidence. It's because I work hard for it... and I have to continue that to be successful.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

I'm going to do everything I can, so that I don't look back and say I didn't do everything.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.