Julius Peppers Quotes

Success is not just about being a hard worker, it is about becoming a smart worker.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

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.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

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.

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

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

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

You can achieve only that which you will do.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.