David Fizdale Quotes

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

I try to give my all every day at training.

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.

I eat, sleep and breathe training.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

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'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

You have to have a work ethic, and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

Consistency is key in any sport and it's no different here.

I approach spring training the same way every year.

What I have to do is train hard, be at the disposal of the coach and make the best of what I have here every day so when I'm called upon I'll be ready.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.