Marla Gibbs Quotes

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.

For me, it's not really about showing the coaches. It's about being accountable, being accountable for my own actions and continuing to do what I've been doing since I got here.

There's no excuse for losing for me.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

I work hard. I never want to live with that feeling that I've disappointed somebody.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

At the end of the day, it's me who has to earn the right to play more.

If you want to be pro, you have to hold yourself accountable. It's about what you do when nobody's looking.

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.