Mohamed Sanu Quotes

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

I knew I'm a hard worker and always wanted to be great at this game.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

The big talent is persistence.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

It is only your passion which takes you forward. So it is my gyaan to all budding singers that keep faith in your passion and prepare yourself, because you will get that opportunity sooner or later, and if you can prove yourself, people will line up for you.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it's too hard.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.

There's a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don't happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.