Vernon Davis Quotes

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

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.

You have to look at yourself and make sure you give your best in training and in your performances. That is what I will keep doing.

If I started something, I had to finish. Like with violin. I started when I was seven only because my best mate wanted to. I hated it and wanted to quit, but Dad made me continue, and I got to grade seven. My parents said I had to know the value of stuff and work for stuff.

It's hard for me to come up with a plan and hold my players accountable until I self-evaluate and hold myself accountable.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Work hard and never make excuses.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

My duty, what I have to do, is try my best in every training session, leave everything of me on the pitch. That's how I can go to bed at the end of the day and be happy with myself.

Basically take care of your game, and your game will speak for itself.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

It's all about getting better. You don't want a coach that says, 'It's all right, it's all right,' and it's not all right.

I'm just going to go out there and contribute the best I can.

You need passion and commitment in your sport or else you will never survive that long. Of course you also have to give it your best shot and be responsible for your own behaviour both on and off the field before you can fully enjoy the game for such a long period of time.

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

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

There's no excuse for losing for me.

At the end of the day, it's me who has to earn the right to play more.

If you want to be pro, you have to hold yourself accountable. It's about what you do when nobody's looking.