Reggie Jackson Quotes

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

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

Don’t expect to succeed with most of your efforts. Ted Williams, the best baseball hitter of all time, in his best hear only hit 407. He did not succeed 60 percent of the time.

The bottom line is, you really have to commit to something if you're going to be successful in it.

Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.

Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Now I am seen as a successful cricketer, but the fact is that I have had more failure than success.

Stardom can be obtained only after surviving and giving good films for almost 20 years.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.

Nothing replaces hard work. The harder you work, the luckier you get.

When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being No. 1 in the world. That dream stays the same as long as you're doing the career that you're on. I think it would be silly for that to change.

As an athlete, there is no bigger compliment in my mind you can pay a guy when you say he can get the job done despite the obstacles he'll face.

Hard work and sacrifice can get you a long way.

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

If you continue working hard and be honest towards your work, then success will come.

If there's one thing I know, it's to work hard, continue to work hard, and the rest will come.