Chuck Tanner Quotes

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

Hard work most often leads to success, but it's not every day, and it's not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

Rome was not built in one day.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.

Progress takes time and discipline.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Success comes but with time. People want to achieve things very quickly; they are not patient.

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

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

You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

If your dream requires patience, give it.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.