Timothy Weah Quotes

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

I am a fighter. I learned it at Genk in my first year when we were fighting against going down. Also, at Bremen last year, it was very difficult. We had to fight more often than not. I will fight again to earn my place.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.

Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

I've had to fight every year. That's kept me hungry.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.

If you look up what I did in Arizona, you'll see that I fought my way through training camp. I didn't have a problem fighting my teammates.

I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.

You can accomplish anything that you dedicate yourself to. Think how many people struggle across the world, across the country. I know anything is possible if you set your mind, your body, your soul, and your faith to it.

We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left - or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.