Patricia Riggen Quotes

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

Every step of my career was hard work.

Thinking about my career, nothing ever came easy for me.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

Embrace the grind because it was once taken from me.

I just think that my road has been so difficult to get where I'm at that I don't take anything for granted.

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.

Where I came from, my upbringing, the ups and downs it took to get my career started, when I made it, I played every game like it was my last game.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.