Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it's too hard.

I really want to be good at what I do.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

It takes many years to prove yourself the best in the world.

A lot of times, when you see someone do something, whether it's sports or multimedia or whatever their profession is, you think it just starts when you see them; you don't realize all of the sweat equity that goes into it.

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

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Hard work and sacrifice can get you a long way.

A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

It's the only way you're able to play as long as I have, is to go out there and perform.

It's not like I was just dropped onto a snowboard and I was able to go 15 feet into the air. There was a lot of hard work that came with it. That's something that people don't really notice sometimes and the amount of sacrifice my family made.