Misty Copeland Quotes

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

I'd guess that every American action film would be different. It's just training, training hard, training a lot. Then trying to give your best performance on the day, and I've been lucky so far.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

Driving from town to town, living in hotels, sometimes not going home during the week because you have an appearance - you really have to be dedicated to do this job.

I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.

I work hard in training to be ready.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

The better the competition is, the more skilled guys are, the more fundamental you have to be.

If your performance levels are right, that brings results and that brings momentum naturally. We believe in the training schedule.

I just focus on getting better every day, putting things right in training and then hopefully what I'm doing right in training I'm doing to show in games as well.

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

I could sit at home, watch TV, and go for the odd run. But to be the best, you have to make this sacrifice, keep going away and doing blocks of training in the mountains.

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.

I have to work hard and give my all in games and training sessions.