Bill Parcells 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.

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.

I probably train just as hard or harder as everybody.

I know sometimes in the off-season I have to motivate myself to get on the ice because I know there's so long until the competitions begin again.

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.

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

Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

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

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Football rewards the guys that are in great condition.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

Some guys get by on natural athletic ability. And then when they reach a certain point, they got to put in the time before and after practice and in the off-season.

We want to make our dreams come true and the Champions League is a dream for all of us.

I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.

My ambition is to win some trophies. That's why I am playing football.