Paige VanZant Quotes

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

I've been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities - one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.

My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I've had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that's the choice I made.

If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.

I think, as a player, we have to work and fight for our dream, and this makes us grow up. We get old quickly - we leave our families to run for our dreams.

I have tunnel vision. I go out and try to get better each and every day.

I can't tell you how many times I had opportunities to do other things and went and golfed because I wanted to be the best.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet.