Eugen Herrigel Quotes

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

High performers obsessively research their dreams from a multitude of sources. To become world-class, you have to know who has already cracked the struggle you face ahead.

I'm just here for this one purpose, and that's to try and get better each and every day and try and win as much as I can, while I can.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.

If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.

As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

A lot of youngsters want to be footballers and a lot dont make it. It is very difficult but if your education is good and you work hard and do everything the best way, then why not?

You can't just fast-forward to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. You have to go out there and earn it.

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

I try to come out every day in the summer and work my hardest because I know consistency will lead to success.

I'm a great believer in setting myself goals, and I like to think that, once I've a goal to aim for, I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it.

I'm in the pursuit of excellence. One foot at a time, one camp at a time.

I'm always finding a way to be successful.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I'd rather just try and focus on what I'm doing, try and win basically.

I'm going for the big moments - I want the big moments. I just tell myself, 'Remember the work you did, the things you went through. And keep going.'

I want to understand everything so I can put myself in a position to be successful.

Never give up, and always believe you can achieve something.

Don't set time limits for achieving goals. They should transcend time.

I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, 'You're almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.'

If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.

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

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.