J. D. Martinez Quotes

I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don't work hard. It's fine when you're younger - you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff - but I'm a bit over that now.

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

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

I must continue to work hard in training. I need to think more like a goal scorer; sometimes I get so immersed in the game because I love general play so much.

As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.

I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.

All I do is work hard. Try and work on my bowling and keep improving every day. That's the key to success at the international level and in tournaments like the IPL.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there's nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

When the time comes to work, I work.

It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

Do the day's work.