Billy Horschel Quotes

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

I want to be a big player one day, and to be that, you have to win titles.

Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that.

Hopefully I can be one of the best midfielders in the world. That's what drives me on: to try and achieve that and to try and go on and win many things.

Football is my priority. It's a short career, and you have to make the most of it, which is why making the World Cup squad is such a big deal and something I will never take for granted.

I train to be the champion.

My dream is to become the best player in the world.

Two-time world champion - that's my goal.

I wanted to be a world champion.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

I always love training at crazy times - it's an edge I'm creating over everyone else.

I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

I watched 'Iron Chef ' for years, and I thought, 'That's playing for the New York Yankees.' I made that my version of being Derek Jeter, and I worked really, really hard to win that.

I'm a competitor. Gym work can be tough. But you just try to get through it.