Hunger for Success Quotes

You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better.

When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

We try to pride ourselves in having a chip and being hungry every game.

From Day 1 since I was in middle school, it's just to get better every day and not settle for anything, try to get better, try to improve, and try to stay hungry. That's not going to change.

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

I am very, very hungry to compete.

The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.

I think I just have the mentality that I'm always hungry.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

Young players are more hungry because they have not achieved what some of the older players have.

I'm always hungry and eager to represent my country and make them proud.

I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.

The hunger doesn't diminish when you win something. If you have the chance to win the European and Spanish Super Cups and the Club World Cup, that makes you want to win even more.

What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.

The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.