Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers..
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think..
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race..
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconce….
Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to l….
I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody ou….
What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty..
As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio....
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit..
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into..
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national ho….
When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives….
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing..
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'.
I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get….
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires….
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't ….
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kin….
Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out..
I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me..
Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you..