Kelvin Sampson Quotes

Yeah, I mean, you always work hard, and certainly there's opportunities to do some bold moves, and sometimes they pay off for you and sometimes they don't.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

If you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to move up.

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn't work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am.

You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Things culminate when they have to. Work comes to you when you deserve to do it.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.