The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.
I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
To try and sustain a performance is always a challenge. Anything you work on, to try and be real and show up and not look as if I'm playing pat to anything is always work.
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.
I've worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.
I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.
When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.
Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.
There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.
I've been working very hard for a long time.
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
The most important for me, it's to fight, give my best on court until the last point.
Our work is never over.
Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.
I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.
