Shawn Johnson Quotes

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

When I started wrestling, I sucked. I hated losing, so I started doing pushups and more squats, and then I did summer wrestling and learned different styles.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

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

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

I'm happy I was able to stick through it and was being very disciplined with what I had to do, because I know eventually hard work will pay off. It's only a matter of now just trying to make sure I get matches under my belt and I feel more and more comfortable playing matches.

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.