Alicia Vikander Quotes

Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

The perception is that I've always made winning look easy. People think it's easy, but they don't see what's behind it, the time away from the family. The days spent climbing, training out in all weather, climbing but trying to keep the speed for the sprint.

Put in the work in every day, put in the work in training, and it will show on the field.

You just have to keep working hard in training.

Every fight is won in the gym. The hard part of our job is getting in the gym every day, six days a week.

Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.

I try to learn every day and train as hard as I can.

Over the years, I was always training hard, no matter what position I was in.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.