Tobin Heath Quotes

When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.

I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

I know what being a star athlete means.

I feel like, I go out and play hard every day and I'm going to practice every day, I'm going to block shots.

I consider myself a player who fights and gives everything on the pitch. Those who know me and appreciate those values understand what I say.

Wrestling will always be my top priority.

I believe I deserve to be respected as an athlete because I'm a pioneer in this sport.

Success in sport comes with responsibility.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.

I always put my boxing first.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.