Betty Gilpin Quotes

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

I am who I am today because of a lot of the things I've learned in gymnastics.

Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I like to push myself, you know.

You can always be stronger.

Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it's not always going to be smooth sailing.

Football helped me tremendously, and that's why I want the sport to stay because it's so valuable. It's helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I've learned discipline. I've learned focus, teamwork, communication.

I've done all my bike circuit cardio workouts when I know I gotta push my numbers higher and I gotta be better than I was before. It sucks. Your body doesn't want to do it, but I've done that. I know I have that in me.

Wrestling has done a lot for my life.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.

I believe everything you experience in life and football can make you better.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.