Viv Richards Quotes

If you train, you work hard, you're actually 110-percent dedicated, you're doing it for all the right reasons, you're probably gonna end up on the top. You know the cream always rises to the top.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I feel that if you have the talent and are hard working, then no one can stop you.

If you want to be at the highest level, then you have to really work hard every day.

The people I've been around who've been successful - be it players, executives, coaches - there's no substitute for a hard day's work.

That's my job: work hard, win, and inspire.

I'm talented, but my work ethic has pushed me over the top.

If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

With competition everyone has to try harder.

If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I'm ambitious. I work hard.

To be one of the best to ever play the game? I think I have the ability to do that. But I've got to work hard. If I just keep talking and don't put some work in, it's not going to happen.

I always try to work hard and well if it's possible.

You've got to be the hardest-working guy.

As a footballer, if you work hard, then everything else falls into place.

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.