Bobby Bowden Quotes

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.

It does take a great hunger to be successful at anything.

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

I'm very passionate in life, and I'm very determined.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.

I'm the type of person who commits to the fullest to whatever I'm doing.

The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.

Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel like that's just something that cannot be overstated enough for people getting into the business. You have to really want it more than anybody else.

The only recipe is hard work, persistence, and belief.