Gerardo Martino Quotes

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

I look for people who have raw intelligence and a great work ethic and loyalty, and I can quickly identify people who have the right ingredients. But sometimes it is more difficult to get them to accept the fact that they can take on increasing responsibility. Oftentimes individuals will decide how far [they] go by how much work they're willing to put in and how quick they are to ask for help. Too many people have this deep-seated fear that if they ask for help, they will be thought less of.

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

Work hard, play hard.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves.