Daley Thompson Quotes

I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

I'm going to stay training every day. I'm going to stay sharp, because that's what I love to do.

I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.

I am always training because I love it.

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

No matter what I'm doing, I'm training. I'm training every day and I think that's something I won't lose - no matter what I do, no matter what event I'm at, I always find a way to train. It's just something that I love to do.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

Play so that you may be serious.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.