Bob Balaban Quotes

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

I was always taught that pressure comes when you aren't prepared or didn't work hard enough.

If you play well, you are praised; if you play badly, you are criticised. Everyone should try to manage it the way they want to.

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

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

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.