Charles Oakley Quotes

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

You have to learn and keep learning.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

I live for this. I continue to study. To bump and learn.

You have to keep working all the time. How much you learn, there is always room for learning; you will have to keep improving all the time.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

You only stop learning when you quit.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

I need to learn every day.

I am still learning.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

If you're not learning, you don't progress.

Sometimes a player thinks it's enough what they did the year before and doesn't understand that every day they should improve.

I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.

It's about being a better player today than you were yesterday.

I'm just trying to work on my game and get better. That's all I can do. Keep working hard, keep trying.

I look at myself in NXT, and then I look at how far I've come on the main roster. I just think in my mind if I keep working as hard as I do and keep giving it my all that I will continue to get better.

Never stop believing in yourself; play with your qualities. You always have to keep making steps. Progress is everything. The big players, every season, they become a new player: they learn, and they learn. That's the key.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

I believe you learn every day.

I want to improve and learn and get better. To do that, I have to keep putting in good performances and help my team-mates around me.