Work

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Money is not a motivating factor...My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Winning takes care of everything.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

I thank god that I didn’t have a lot of talent because I wouldn’t have worked as hard.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

You can make anything by writing.

Cut out all these exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.