Sean McDermott Quotes

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

I'm a fighter. I'm a worker.

The only thing I can do is work hard.

I am extremely tough and extremely physical, and that is because my father taught me to be tough, physical, and not to take no for an answer.

You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.

I'm a guy that's all about not trying to take the easy way out or get out of things too early.

Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.

I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

I always knew I had to work hard.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

The big talent is persistence.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.