Li Na Quotes

I think I have the ability to win any contest I enter. As long as I stay healthy and keep having fun with my skiing, there's no regressing.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

There was a time where I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful.

I've played for 15 years and played in five major tournaments. I know what it gives me in terms of the joy, in terms of the love for the game. But I'm done with it.

I wanted to be a world champion of some sorts since I got into the industry, when I was 15 years old, and I was able to do that.

I could have been Mr. America if I wanted to be, but I chose wrestling. I could have played pro-football, but I chose wrestling.

You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.

I am privileged to have played basketball.

There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.

Obviously I would have loved to have won, but I have had a good run every match.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.