Victoria Arlen Quotes

I believe it when I say I can beat anyone if I have a great training camp.

I swam my brains out.

It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

What wins a fight is training hard, working hard, and that's what I do: Train hard every time. Being pretty or not is not the point.

We gotta show up and pay attention to details, embracing the process of hard work, and developing our bodies and minds to get ready for the season.

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

If you train with fast athletes, it keeps you pushing. I know that good preparation is more important than everything else.

The training camp is where you do all the hard work.

If I train hard and have a great training camp, and I'm as prepared as I can be, I can take any heavyweight in the world.

Hard work doesn't start during the game. Hard work starts the night before.

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.