B. Wayne Hughes Quotes

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Sticking with your craft goes a long way in ensuring that you'll be successful.

It's never just about talent, it's about a lot more than that.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.

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

I'm talented, but my work ethic has pushed me over the top.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

The big talent is persistence.

Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.