Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

At Kentucky, you have to be a competitor. If you're not, you're going to look weak. You're going to look like you don't belong.

My talent in playing football was not the highest but I was very hard-working, interested to learn and get better, and this focus made me better and better.

Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport.

When I'm on the field, I just do my job.

I am all athlete, and that's important, that my looks have nothing to do with what I do in the WWE.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'