Mirai Nagasu Quotes

The minute we think we went hard, go harder. We gotta work.

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off.

I have to keep playing and growing and giving my best.

Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.

Never stop believing in yourself; play with your qualities. You always have to keep making steps. Progress is everything. The big players, every season, they become a new player: they learn, and they learn. That's the key.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.

I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.

My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.

I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never being satisfied with what you've accomplished. The lecturer talked about how the game of basketball was about learning to control the ball through dribbling and passing and shooting.

I always wanted to get better, I always wanted to be the best, and I knew from a young age, so I kept putting in the hard work and kept training around the outside courts outside my house and it paid off.