Steph Houghton Quotes

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Freedom is not free, and we all have a lot of work ahead of us. And I perform the ultimate soundtrack to get the job done every day. We're not having any fun at all.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

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

I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Easy is not an option!

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Unfortunately, some younger player doesn't understand that if you want to get through, you have to sacrifice, you have to work hard, and there is no easy way.

We must lift ourselves for every challenge we face, no matter who you are playing - and that applies especially to the national team.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

Because I knew how hard I worked, I knew the pain, I knew the sacrifice, I knew the tears, I knew everything. Despite everything, I stuck to it. I toughed it out, and I kept my head in the game, even when the odds were against me.

You don't always get what you want, but you work at it.

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.