Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

Top athletes are like warriors.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

My mum and dad are both sportspeople and know what's it all about. They know it's hard work, but they also know what it takes to become a professional athlete. I don't think - without their help, I wouldn't have got this far.

My grandfather and my uncle took me to the gym. I was kinda wild; they thought that boxing would teach me a lesson, but I don't think in their wildest dreams they could imagine the success I would have.

I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

If you train with fast athletes, it keeps you pushing. I know that good preparation is more important than everything else.

I always said I wanted to become a master of my game, like Bruce Lee. I mastered my art of football, because that's what it truly is when you understand it.

It's hard to believe I was just seven when I started boxing but I've put everything of myself into it.

The training camp is where you do all the hard work.

I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

I work hard on the training field every day.

I'm the type of guy that hates to get out of practice.

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.

I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.