Al Kaline Quotes

Every time I step on the court, I have to give my all.

I can understand a bad pass or something like that; I don't get irate. But the one thing I can never accept is a lack of work rate. You have to be able to give everything you have.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

No matter what the circumstances are, I've never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There's never any change in him. Whenever he's out on the field, he's giving it all, and he's just such a competitor.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

I want to give 100 per cent every day whether it's training, a cup final or a friendly.

You've got to play hard every minute you're on the court.

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

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.

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Do the day's work.