Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

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.

What I try to do is improve as much as I can so I can be the best bowler I possibly can.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

Every time I pull on a Madrid or Wales top, I run myself into the ground.

When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you.

I don't think I was a perfect hurdler, but I guess I did win all the time.

I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.

Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.

I live to be in these matches.

At Milan, Kaka used to work even when we had two or three days off. And our fitness coach, Daniele Tognaccini, made him run.