Lin Dan Quotes

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

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

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

Every single night, I try to go out there and play the best that I can.

Since I was 9 years old, I've been training to be a champion.

I just go out there and try to compete to the best of my abilities.

I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

Making it to the Finals was the hardest work. You have to go out and play the physical and mental game.

I'll do anything to get a place in the national team.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

You have to be on top of your game, train hard every day, and try to convince the boss throughout the week that he should put you in the team.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

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.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.