Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

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

The road to success is through commitment.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

I always put my boxing first.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

I'm just trying to work on my game and get better. That's all I can do. Keep working hard, keep trying.

Honestly, it takes a lot of dedication and sacrifice. When I was trying to get better a couple years ago, I was not going out. I had a couple of people get mad at me. I wasn't going out and partying, I was just doing what I had to do to get better.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

It takes a lot of hard work to stay committed and focus on what I wanted to achieve.

I can't tell you how many times I had opportunities to do other things and went and golfed because I wanted to be the best.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.