James Baker Quotes

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.

Porto helped me quite a bit but I worked really hard, with lots of enthusiasm and humility and with my mind always focused on returning to Real Madrid. It was a fantastic year on a personal level.

I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education.

When I read or study, I don't do it for the degree - if I fail, it doesn't matter, but it just takes me out of this world where you're the centre of attention all the time. You just become a normal bloke when you're setting yourself those kinds of targets.

When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

I just focus on what I can do myself, which is work hard and try to compete with the teammates I have.

It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and off it with the engineers, without really thinking about what people are expecting from me on the outside.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

I just need to work. There's no other thing with me.

I'm always focused on constantly developing.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'