Petra Kvitova Quotes

Nobody wants to retire from football.

As long as you put me out on the court, I was gonna play hard.

Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

If you don't play with intensity in this league, you're going to get embarrassed. Without hard work, you don't have a chance.

I don't ever want to be carried off the court.

There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on.

It doesn't matter to me whether it's the 12th or the 90th minute, I'll go for the ball the same way as I go for a plate of food.

I have said goodbye to international cricket.

Every time I step on the court, I have to give my all.

I just play hard.

I really enjoy being in the game for every single ball.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.