Knute Rockne Quotes

It doesn't matter if a footballer is earning £100,000 a week or £1,000 a week the first thing you need to do is work hard for your team.

If you are going to be successful in football you have to make sacrifices and that's something I am happy to do.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

For Altetico to keep wining we can only do one thing - work and fight.

In order to win a championship, you've got to be consistent.

I always believe that hard work is something that gets you to where you need to be, and I know in football it's not a one-man game.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

Effort is grossly underrated.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

The true success is to labour.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.