Ray Lewis Quotes

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

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.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

If you don't want to practice, unless you have a hard-nosed coach, you don't have to.

It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to out work thousands in front of nobody.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

Work hard and never make excuses.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off.

I have a good work ethic.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.