Jack Butland Quotes

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

I took care of business in the classroom and on the field.

I got good grades. I played sports.

I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.

I had great grades. Why? Because I studied twice as long and twice as hard as everybody else.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

With sacrifice and work, anything can be done.