Gerry Cooney Quotes

Young players try and imitate the best players like Ronaldo. They try to imitate the hair, the clothes, the cars, the tricks. I try to tell them how hard Cristiano Ronaldo trained in training and after training. He only wanted to be the best. Everything else came after.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

I have so much respect for athletes like LeBron James. I get motivation from them because I know how many hours they put into it. It takes a lot of hard work and drive.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

My teachers made me what I am today. I remember they used to instill confidence in me and stress on remaining focused.

To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.

Didn't Virat Kohli fall in love and still perform? If he can, why can't I?