Al Horford Quotes

Nothing guarantees a championship. Nothing. Not having the best players, not practicing the most. Your best chance is if you do the right thing every day.

In order to win a championship, you've got to be consistent.

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.

Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athlete, they have to train and they have to practice to win games. For sure. One hundred percent. You have to be training.

The key to success is hard work. You want to feel as comfortable as you can going into the game, and you do that by preparing well.

I just come every day, do my stuff before the game, work hard. You work hard, and it pays off.

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

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

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

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

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Winning is not easy. There's an investment that has to be made night in and night out.