Harold H. Greene Quotes

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

The people I've been around who've been successful - be it players, executives, coaches - there's no substitute for a hard day's work.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I've never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I've never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I've put into my game right now has paid off, but I've got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.

I have to keep working hard and playing well because I don't like to be second or third: they're the worst places to be. You would be proud, of course, because it means you're on the way, but you want to finish first.

I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.

The next generation did not seem to be smart enough to realise that you have to work to be at the top and to stay at the top. You can have talent, but if you do not work hard it's not going to happen.

School is the same as producing: If you want to make it far, there are a million, trillion people trying to do the same thing. If you're not in over-grind mode, it's probably not going to work the way that you want it to.

I'm the champion, and to stay ahead, I have to work harder.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

I'm always hustling.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I am only about winning and getting better.