In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.