Chris Arreola Quotes

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

I will give my soul every game.

Dance was my escape from reality.

I give everything when I'm on the pitch. When I'm at the training ground, working in the gym or whatever, I always give everything I've got.

My approach to this game for 14 years that I've been in this league is to play hard and give my 100 percent, whatever I have.

Every day, every game, I leave it all out there.

I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That's my passion. That's how I give to the game.

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

I already gave my best.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

If the arm got sore, we went out and pitched until the soreness left - we had to, or we would have been dropped from the team. Nothing short of a broken leg could have kept us out of uniform.

I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

Get me a military man who can’t quit until I say he can quit.

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

I just keep working.

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

Doing as much as you can for as long as you can - that's the motto.

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.